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For this paper you do not qualify as outside sources such as: Wikipedia, answers.com, Cliff Notes, Sparknotes, Shmoop, enotes, gradesaver. You may consult websites that end with “.edu.”  Please use I give you the resources and the same year of the Book.

Quotations are very important in a paper: including and discussing specific quotations from the primary text(s). Do not use quotations to summarize the tale/book, or to summarize something you already said.  Also, make sure to refer to specific characters in the tales/poem of discussion.   Finally, please remember this is a Comparative Literature course; that means, whenever possible, you should attempt to compare or contrast one character with another, either of the same text, or from different texts discussed in this course.

 Format: papers should be double space only, typed with Times New Roman font, 12 point. A double-spaced page contains roughly 22 lines. Quotation needs to be single-spaced. 

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Some find Boccaccio’s Decameron offensive and irreverent towards the representatives of the Catholic Church.  Others feel that exposing the corruption of the Catholic Church is indeed necessary for a healthy Christian world.   Analyzing three tales of your choice explain how, in your opinion, exposing corruption is beneficial both for the Church and society in general.  Make sure to discuss, and to include specific examples from the text(s) of your analysis.

Book: The Decameron (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback – July 15, 2008by  Giovanni Boccaccio   (Author),  Jonathan Usher  (Editor),  Guido Waldman  (Translator)

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1. PROJECT MUSE: Ritual and Ceremony in Boccaccio's Decameron by Joseph Falvo http://muse.jhu.edu/article/22523

2. JSTOR: Naturalizing Humanity: Genealogy and the Politics of Storytelling in Boccaccio's Decameron by Roberto Farneti 

http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25655839.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A910824fb19b051ecfc39a5b293b319fd

3. JSTOR: Boccaccio's Miraculous Art of Storytelling: Dec. I.1, II.1 and VI.10 by FRANCESCO CIABATTONI  http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25780713.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A450a410a61bcc268c2ec8abe8fd1e454

4. JSTOR: The Modality of Moral Communication in the Decameron's First Day, in Contrast to the Mirror of the Exemplum byTimothy Kircher

http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1261966.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Ae0c6f0a6b8a48d5c0efa7a55c7c7306c

5. EBSCOHOST: Boccaccio's Decameron and de Ferrières's Songe de pestilence by Hyatte Reginalde

http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=1&sid=78a1ae67-8c90-48d4-a810-e1a68fe16016%40sessionmgr120&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=509512553&db=hus

6. EBSCOHOST: Making Amends and Behaving Magnificently: Decameron 10’s Secular Redemption by Dino S. Cervigni http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=be198595-e66d-4b72-8a54-007fae00c034%40sessionmgr104

7. Religion and the clergy in Boccaccio's Decameron