薄伽丘和《十日谈》的另一种解读——纪念薄伽丘诞辰七百周年

A Differentiable Approach to Boccaccio from a Social and Cultural Perspective

中世纪晚期,西欧社会发生了巨变,然而天主教会仍然严格地控制着意识形态,传统的社会道德规范及其理论基础——天主教教理,仍然神圣不可侵犯。薄伽丘没有、亦不可能对教会和抽象的教理提出疑问,更不可能对其批判和鞭挞,而只是以嬉笑、戏谑的手法把发生巨变的社会现实真实地记录下来。《十日谈》生动地描绘了人的现世生活,因而被后人称为"人曲"。薄伽丘紧紧地抓住了人与其他被造物之间的根本差别,即人具有其他被造物所不具备的"情感"和"理性",着力展示了最能体现人类情感的"爱情"和人类理性的"智慧"。

doctrine,much less to criticize or castigate it,but he used the tactic of jest and burlesques in order to record veritably the radical changes in the social reality.Decameron vividly depicts man's earthly life,and therefore was later known as the'Human Comedy'.Boccaccio held fast to the fundamental difference between man and other creatures;namely men are in possession of the'emotion'and the'rationality'which other creatures lack,and put forth every effort to demonstrate'love'and'wisdom'which can best embody the human rationality and human emotion.