Mujeres y deseo en el Decamerón

Far from the rigid stereotypes of their time, the women of the "Decameron" behave as active, intelligent, and profoundly human characters, capable of loving, desiring, deceiving, and deciding their own destiny. Female desire permeates many of the book's stories and is presented as an irrepressible and, at times, subversive natural force in the face of social, marital, and religious norms. Boccaccio treats this not as a moral problem, but as an essential dimension of human experience, shared by both men and women. Mita Valvassori has delved into the one hundred tales of the Italian classic to select those that best represent this duality between woman and desire. Through a blend of irony, realism, and humor, the author has constructed a surprisingly modern portrait, illustrated in this edition with a wide selection of paintings, mostly by Pre-Raphaelite artists.