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Tue Oct-12-04 10:43 AM
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| Poll question: The Decameron vs. The Canterbury Tales |
| Fovea
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Tue Oct-12-04 10:52 AM
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but I fully admit that while I can read unglossed ME
Medieval Italian is way beyond me.
Having said that, Chaucer's CT is a more profound, complex work
than The Decameron, IMO. Why the Knight's Tale all by itself may be the most frequent victim of bad literary scholarship in the whole history of bad literary scholarship.
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| sybylla
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Tue Oct-12-04 11:12 AM
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I've always thought the Decameron was less well tied together. Even the movie was a bit boring.
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Tue Oct-12-04 11:24 AM
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| 3. I love the Canterbury Tales! |
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which one has the better sex stories?
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Tue Oct-12-04 05:45 PM
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that could even hope to surpass Chaucer's Tales, is Dante's Divine Comedy. Boccacio's good, but he's no Chaucer (or Dante for that matter).
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