books.google.com - Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented with such a wide variety of genres that critics have tended to focus more on the differences among his works than on their underlying similarities. However, a more comprehensive examination of his corpus reveals that concealed beneath this striking diversity...http://books.google.com/books/about/Boccaccioa_s_Naked_Muse_Eros_Culture_and.html?id=UZpyfvzQlN4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBoccaccioa's Naked Muse: Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination