Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini(Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)

Series: Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism

Visualizing Boccaccio represents a new approach to the interpretation of Boccaccio's classic book of erotic tales, The Decameron. In a comparison of selected tales from The Decameron with works by Cimabue and Giotto, fifteenth-century manuscript illumination, a series of paintings by Botticelli, and Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinematic interpretation of the tales, Ricketts demonstrates how the juxtapos