Mirrors and Music in the Decameron

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t the end of the First Day of Boccaccio’s Decameron, Queen Pampinea urges the brigata to make music. Emilia promptly sings “In mine own beauty take I such delight That to no other love could I my fond affections plight,”1 a ditty about finding pleasure in one’s own reflection. She continues, “why seek out past delights, or new ones try When all content within my glass I find?”2 Scholars have interpreted Emilia’s mirror in myriad ways: as a symbol of truth, of God’s presence, or of Grammar, one of the Liberal Arts.3

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تاریخ انتشار 2010