Join us for a lecture by Italian faculty member, Professor Fabian Alfie, at the UA Main Library Special Collections. Professor Alfie will talk on an important classic of Italian literature by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), the Decameron. The literary work consists of a series of 100 stories by 10 tellers who escaped the Black Death of 1348. Two hundred years later, although it was considered a model of literary Italian, the Decameron was suppressed by the Inquisition because of its bawdy content and anti-clericalism. Professor Alfie will discuss the volume edited by Leonardo Salviati (1540-1589), who censored the Decameron in the hopes of preserving as much of Boccaccio’s language as possible for posterity. For more information, please visit the Special Collections website.
Title: An Imperfect Rescue: Lionardo Salviati’s Edition (1597) of Boccaccio’s Decameron
- WHEN: Weds. 18 April 2018 at 6:00pm
- WHERE: Special Collections (UA Main Library)
