IT 1751 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Poggio Bracciolini, Petrarch
24 Oct 2018
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The rise of humanism and the dignity of man. Its unreasonable to think human beings can control everything which is why. Human identity isn"t something that is modern, but instead has cultural history and cultural identity. When we lose cultural identity we lose our power to manage other worlds and our lives in other ways. The decameron is about more than the body and primal instincts. There is not just a portrayal of carnal behaviours but a portrayal of the deeper meaning behind these attitudes and actions. Presents some ambiguities making it hard to understand boccaccio"s meaning. Is griselda a model of human behaviour? (she withstands all of her husband"s abuse and doesn"t take any action or say a word) Boccaccio raises important issues of his world and the treatment or relationship of gender and the social classes. Economy is at the base of social changes. Boccaccio displays the limits of his own social period.
