S24-19 Selections from Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"

S24-19 Selections from Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"

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Daniel Sullivan Education Ctr (behind OLMC church) 54 South New Road Hamden, CT 06518 United States

Conference Room

3/13/2024-5/1/2024

10:00 AM-11:30 AM on Wed

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$20.00

Boccaccio’s stories are both entertaining and insightful. They represent a new way of approaching our terrestrial existence by concentrating on the enjoyment of this life and world, not just as a preparation for the next world. His stories seek to discover the true goal of human existence on Earth and in the process he looks searchingly at human love in all of its manifestations. The text for the class is: Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron, Translated by G. H. McWilliam, Penguin Classics.

Jim Rhodes PhD graduated from Holy Cross College as a philosophy major and earned his PhD from Fordham University specializing in Medieval Literature and the works of James Joyce. He taught for many years in the English Department at Southern Connecticut State University and is the author of the book Poetry Does Theology: Chaucer, Grosseteste, and the Pearl Poet.