History YMMV / TheDecameron

* ValuesResonance: Some Christian authors like Creator/GKChesterton, Creator/HilaireBelloc, Ronald Knox, and others completely agree with Abraham when he reasons that the Catholic Church must be supported by the Holy Spirit if it can withhold centuries of corruption and mismanagement.

** While Jewish characters are rich and occasionally [[GreedyJew miserly]], they are also considered wise or virtuous. The tale of Melchizedek the Jew (day 1, story 3) is remarkable for having an Aesop arguing that Judaism and Islam are just as valid as Christianity. Likewise, the Jewish merchant Abraham (day 1, story 2) is described as far more moral than ''all'' the Catholic clerics he sees in Rome. He still converts to Christianity at the end, considering that if the religion has been so successful despite the unworthiness of its servants, it must indeed have God's favour.

* ValuesResonance: Some Christian authors like Creator/GKChesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox, and others completely agree with Abraham when he reasons that the Catholic Church must be supported by the Holy Spirit if it can withhold centuries of corruption and mismanagement.

* ValuesRessonance: Some Christian authors like Creator/GKChesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox, and others completely agree with Abraham when he reasons that the Catholic Church must be supported by the Holy Spirit if it can withhold centuries of corruption and mismanagement.

* DesignatedHero: Ricciardo (day 3, story 6) is a man who is in love with a married woman, and so, he takes advantage of her jealousy regarding her husband by impersonating her husband and having sex with her in the bathhouse. She doesn't even find out that the man she had sex with was not her husband until later. In other words, he ''rapes'' her! [[CrossesTheLineTwice And Ricciardo is supposed to be the good guy]]!

** (Day 5, story 1) ends with Cimon and Lysimachus getting married to the women they love, Iphigenia and Cassandra respectively. Yay! But they only do so after they have violently killed the men, Pasimondas and Ormisdas respectively, who were supposed to marry the girls in the first place, so [[FlatJoy whoop-dee-doo]]!

** While Jewish characters are rich and occasionally [[GreedyJew miserly]], they are also said to be wise or even virtuous. The tale of Melchizedek the Jew (day 1, story 3) is remarkable for having an Aesop arguing that Judaism and Islam are just as valid as Christianity. Likewise, the Jewish merchant Abraham (day 1, story 2) is described as far more moral than ''all'' the Catholic clerics he sees in Rome. He still converts to Christianity at the end, considering that [[InsaneTrollLogic if the religion has been so successful despite the unworthiness of its servants, it must indeed have God's favour]].

** While Jewish characters are rich and occasionally [[GreedyJew miserly]], they are also said to be wise or even virtuous. The tale of Melchizedek the Jew (day 1, story 3) is remarkable for having an Aesop arguing that Judaism and Islam are just as valid as Christianity.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Tales which mix AnAesop with ValuesDissonance usually end up with this.

** Also, (day 5, story 8). In it, Nastagio is in love with a woman who rejects him. So, as he walks along his way, he hears of a lady who rejected her knight suitor and rejoiced when he killed himself. She's sentenced to be hunted and killed by him, eaten by his dogs and brought back to life every Friday for the same amount of years than the months she was cruel to him. [[DesignatedHero Nastagio]] uses this to frighten the woman he loves so much she finally agrees to marry him. In other words, ''he blackmails her into marrying him''!

** The women admit to themselves they need men's presence because without them they are helpless.
** The moral of "day 9, story 9": you have to beat your wife brutally when necessary to make her obey you completely.

** The moral of "day 9, story 9": you have to beat your wife when necessary.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's hard to complain about Griselda's woes after when being so submissive to her husband that [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality she doesn't oppose him murdering their two children]] (he actually sent them in another family in order to test his wife's obedience). That's probably why Creator/CharlesPerrault wrote a LighterAndSofter version where the husband makes her believe their daughter died in a convent.

* EsotericHappyEnding: (Day 5, story 1) ends with Cimon and Lysimachus getting married to the women they love, Iphigenia and Cassandra respectively. Yay! But they only do so after they have violently killed the men, Pasimondas and Ormisdas respectively, who were supposed to marry the girls in the first place, so [[FlatJoy whoop-dee-doo]]!
** Also, (day 5, story 8). In it, Nastagio is in love with a woman who rejects him. So, as he walsk along his way, he hears of a lady who rejected her knight suitor and rejoiced when he killed himself. She's sentenced to be hunted and killed by him, eaten by his dogs and brought back to life every Friday for the same amount of years than the months she was cruel to him. [[DesignatedHero Nastagio]] uses this to frighten the woman he loves so much she finally agrees to marry him. In other words, ''he blackmails her into marrying him''!

* GeniusBonus: The work is subtitled ''Prencipe Galeotto'' (Prince Galehaut), the go-between of Lancelot and Guinevere, a reference to the many go-betweens in ''Decameron'' and also a reference made by [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]] in ''Inferno'' V.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's hard to complain about Griselda's woes after when being so submissive to her husband that [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality she doesn't oppose him to kill their two children]] (he actually sent them in another familly in order to test his wife's obedience). That's probably why Creator/CharlesPerrault wrote a LighterAndSofter version where the husband makes her believe their daughter died in a convent.

** The women admit themselves they need men's presence because without them they are helpless.
** The morality of "day 9, story 9": You have to beat your wife when necessary.

%%* UnintentionallySympathetic: Giosefo's wife (day 9, story 9).