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Themes & Motifs

Follow Theme and Motif trails in the text of the Decameron

How to locate Boccaccio's Sources and Imitators

Key Topics

• Fortuna
  • About Fortuna
  • Fortuna in Dante
  • The Iconography of Fortuna
• Amore
  • The Garden
  • The Art of Courtly Love
  • Nature as Morality
• Ingegno
  • Disguise and Gender-Role Reversal

Motifs

• The Plague
• The Eaten Heart
• Echoes of an Indian Tale in the Decameron