“Forgers of Falsehood, Physicians of Nought”: Retailing Fictions in Boccaccio’s Decameron

By T. F. Gittes

Whereas Petrarch’s portrait of his doctor in Invectives Against a Physician is deliberately caricatural and seized at a glance, Boccaccio’s attitude towards doctors in the Decameron is far harder to grasp and easily overlooked. Yet, doctors and…

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