Literarischer #16Juni

„Es ist besser, zu genießen und zu bereuen, als zu bereuen, dass man nicht genossen hat.“

#Boccaccio #Decamerone Geburt 1313

Today in my first-year seminar we had #ChatGPT write a course paper to see if it was any good, and, uh, it was AMAZING

#Medieval #Boccaccio #italianliteratureintranslation #italianists #AcademicChatter

RT @La7tv: #ottoemezzo "Ministri ciarlieri... #Dante di destra? A sinistra ci accontentiamo di #Boccaccio... ci si diverte di più", la divertente battuta di @pbersani https://www.la7.it/otto-e-mezzo/video/la-battuta-di-bersani-ministri-ciarlieri-dante-di-destra-a-sinistra-ci-accontentiamo-di-boccaccio-ci-24-01-2023-469250

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/pbersani/status/1618269378243612677

Still smh that an Italian #medievalist could write such a joyless self defense when #Boccaccio was RIGHT THERE as a model

I guess it’s harder when your actions are indefensible

Another installment of "Music, #Pandemics, and History": I'm having students assess The #Boccaccio Project of the Library of Congress, asking questions like How was this like/unlike Boccaccio? Did it “cohere” as a project? (Does Boccaccio?)

https://www.loc.gov/concerts/boccaccio-project/?loclr=blogtea

#pandemicmusic #covidmusic #CovidChamberMusic #BoccaccioProject #doingitwell

#AmWriting in fits and starts because of influx of #Receptiogate threads. Please slow down, help me get back to the con artists (i.e. in #Boccaccio) that I need to focus on 😭 😭

Didn’t win the library’s prize for #BannedBook art projects, but I’m happy with this little sendup of the #Decameron.

#Boccaccio #SmallArt #art #illustration #medieval #censorship #BookArt

Last week in class I paired Aristotle’s discussions of #debt, #obligation, #friendship (Nicomachean Ethics) with Fred Moten & Stefano Harney’s “Debt and Study” (The Undercommons)… excited for tomorrow’s class to hear how these ethical models resonate with students’ readings of #Boccaccio ’s Decameron. Which characters buy into prevaling norms of obligation/ exchange? Which characters perceive norms as exploitative and flee? #medievalstudies #LectureNotes

In the spirit of #introduction and experimenting with mastodontic practice: today I #AmWriting in little bursts, feeling sanguine about all the little distractions (noodling around here, domestic rumpus, walloping my kiddo in tennis). Shout out to anyone else who thrives with #writing buddies, even remote ones.

Today's project: connecting the intro of my chapter on #Boccaccio, #obscenity, and #stagecraft to the close readings that follow. Who else is writing?