Calandrino, An Outline
1st Slide * Emilia is queen of the brigata for the ninth day. Filostrato is the teller of the story. For the second time there is no prescribed theme for the stories of the day. * Theme of the story is discovering the simplicity of Calandrino, and how easy it is to trick him.
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* “Not only does Boccaccio invent a host of original comic characters, but he presents them in a broad range of situations, frequently using his mastery of comical discourse to heighten his effects.” * Calandrino was the prototype for many of the simpleton Characters of Italian Renaissance comedy. * Calandrino is claimed that in the Decameron he figures in more of the stories than any of the other characters, but that distinction belongs to Calcndrino’s …show more content…
* Calandrino blames his wife, worries how he’s to produce the infant.
He should’ve picked up that they are joking when Master simone tells him that he is pregnant. We can see how uneducated Calandrino is.
On top : If we think in Boccaccio’s view, I think he wanted to indicates how men in 14th century couldn’t stand the fact that the wives have the leadership.
p662. * Master simone tells Calandrino that it’s going to cost him a pretty penny. * 3rd paragraph
Difference between these days and back then : It is odd that Calandrino only worries about how painful it would be to have a baby, not embarrassed him being pregnant..
8th slide * Master Simone gives a potion for a painless miscarriage. * after taking a potion, Calandrino believes it to have been effective on his body because it says that "He bestowed high praise on Master Simone for his miraculous cure, which in only three days had effected a painless miscarriage.“ * This shows how much he believed in fole magic * The three men were delighted for getting round Calandrino’s avarice so cleverly, but they had not deceived Monna Tessa.
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2nd
* “Not only does Boccaccio invent a host of original comic characters, but he presents them in a broad range of situations, frequently using his mastery of comical discourse to heighten his effects.” * Calandrino was the prototype for many of the simpleton Characters of Italian Renaissance comedy. * Calandrino is claimed that in the Decameron he figures in more of the stories than any of the other characters, but that distinction belongs to Calcndrino’s …show more content…
* Calandrino blames his wife, worries how he’s to produce the infant.
He should’ve picked up that they are joking when Master simone tells him that he is pregnant. We can see how uneducated Calandrino is.
On top : If we think in Boccaccio’s view, I think he wanted to indicates how men in 14th century couldn’t stand the fact that the wives have the leadership.
p662. * Master simone tells Calandrino that it’s going to cost him a pretty penny. * 3rd paragraph
Difference between these days and back then : It is odd that Calandrino only worries about how painful it would be to have a baby, not embarrassed him being pregnant..
8th slide * Master Simone gives a potion for a painless miscarriage. * after taking a potion, Calandrino believes it to have been effective on his body because it says that "He bestowed high praise on Master Simone for his miraculous cure, which in only three days had effected a painless miscarriage.“ * This shows how much he believed in fole magic * The three men were delighted for getting round Calandrino’s avarice so cleverly, but they had not deceived Monna Tessa.
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