Boccaccio's Decameron Online Discussion

Speaker(s): Robert Harrison (Stanford University)

Join this Zoom discussion of The Decameron, the 14th century masterpiece that begins with ten young people fleeing to the countryside as the plague of 1348 ravaged the city of Florence, Italy.
 
Robert Harrison, a professor of Italian at Stanford, will discuss what the book can say to us today.
 
Sunday, March 29, 2020
10:30am - 12:00pm
 
Members of the Stanford community are invited to join the Zoom meeting by clicking on this link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/980022473
 
The discussion will focus on the preface, introduction and first tale in the book, which was written by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). Participants are encouraged to read these in advance. 
 
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Decameron is available at no cost here.