The Decameron Third Day in Perspective

Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The Decameron Third Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the texts Third Day. For each novella, a distinguished Boccaccio scholar offers an essay that both reviews the current scholarly literature and advances new and intriguing interpretations of the work. The whole collection reflects the seriess guiding principle of examining the text in perspective, revealing the connections among the novellas, the Days, and the framing narrative that holds the whole Decameron together. The second of the University of Toronto Presss interpretive guides to Boccaccios Decameron, this collection forms part of an ambitious project to examine the entire Decameron, Day by Day.