The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective Marchesi Barsella Hardback 9781487540494

The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective\nby Simone Marchesi\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Simone Marchesi\nTitle: The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9781487540494\nISBN-10: 1487540493\nRRP: \u00A353.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio\u2019s Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing an itinerary toward the attainment of virtue or following other possible interpretive schematics, Day Nine remains a liminal moment of pause before the inception of the final stories dedicated to the highest civic virtues o.