Boccaccio is badass

It has finally happened. After being a “professional student” for a good twelve years or more, I finally have a class where we will study, in part, Boccaccio. Tomorrow evening, we will devote an entire class to my beloved Giovanni. Oh what joys shall be mine.

This morning, I was rereading the Author’s Preface and Introduction as well as a couple of tales and I have to say...What genius!!!!! Boccaccio’s writing has an elegant simplicity. Boccaccio’s work has the elegance of an apple computer while Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales resembles nothing so much as a microsoft program: fat, bloated, prone to breakdowns, and just plain not very good. Reading Chaucer is like using windows XP; at first you think you can do all kinds of stuff with it. Then you realize that it’s a completely worthless turd that doesn’t work.