Olivia Holmes teaches Medieval Studies at Binghamton University. She has authored two previous monographs: Assembling the Lyric Self: Authorship from Troubadour Song to Italian Poetry Book (2000), which won the American Association of Italian Studies Book Award, and Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy (2008).

'Written in a lucid and eloquent style, the study is a product of a career of profound thinking about both the vast literary context of Boccaccio's vernacular masterpiece and the novellas themselves. … Holmes's book is a pathbreaking and major contribution to Boccaccio studies.' Brenda Deen Schildgen, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

• 1. Ethical fables and antifeminist exempla; 2. From sermon story to novella; 3. Lives of saints, lives of sinners; 4. Classical and vernacular exempla; 5. Magister Amoris.

Olivia Holmes teaches Medieval Studies at Binghamton University. She has authored two previous monographs: Assembling the Lyric Self: Authorship from Troubadour Song to Italian Poetry Book (2000), which won the American Association of Italian Studies Book Award, and Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy (2008).

'Written in a lucid and eloquent style, the study is a product of a career of profound thinking about both the vast literary context of Boccaccio's vernacular masterpiece and the novellas themselves. … Holmes's book is a pathbreaking and major contribution to Boccaccio studies.' Brenda Deen Schildgen, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

• 1. Ethical fables and antifeminist exempla; 2. From sermon story to novella; 3. Lives of saints, lives of sinners; 4. Classical and vernacular exempla; 5. Magister Amoris.

Olivia Holmes teaches Medieval Studies at Binghamton University. She has authored two previous monographs: Assembling the Lyric Self: Authorship from Troubadour Song to Italian Poetry Book (2000), which won the American Association of Italian Studies Book Award, and Dante's Two Beloveds: Ethics and Erotics in the Divine Comedy (2008).

'Written in a lucid and eloquent style, the study is a product of a career of profound thinking about both the vast literary context of Boccaccio's vernacular masterpiece and the novellas themselves. … Holmes's book is a pathbreaking and major contribution to Boccaccio studies.' Brenda Deen Schildgen, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

• 1. Ethical fables and antifeminist exempla; 2. From sermon story to novella; 3. Lives of saints, lives of sinners; 4. Classical and vernacular exempla; 5. Magister Amoris.