Using information provided in the textbook, in Rebhorn’s introduction to the Decameron, and in Boccaccio’s introduction and the assigned stories, explain how Boccaccio’s work reflected both a declining respect for the authority of the Church official and an abiding interest in morality. In this topic you may want to consider the types of immoral behavior, such as hypocrisy, that he mocked in order to assess whether the Decameron had a didactic purpose.
