Review: The Decameron

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The Decameron
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Three stars because the quality of the stories was all over the place. Some rated much higher, others lower. The stories were, in turn, bawdy, folksy, funny, and shrewd. But one of the things that struck me was how lightly adultery was treated in the 14th century. The natural man was alive and kicking, with a thin whitewash of Christian sentiment to make it seem okay.

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timothy
timothy
7 years ago

Pastor Wilson If you haven’t read it Paul Among the People by Sarah Ruden is quite good ( so far.I am on chapter 2 or 3) http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Among-People-Reinterpreted-Reimagined/dp/0375425012?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00 The author is a classical scholar and Christian (Quaker) who places St. Paul’s writings aside Roman life at the time. For example, she goes through the fruits of the flesh 19Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21envy,d drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I And takes each one and describes what it meant, how it was… Read more »