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Passioni boccacciane tra Francia e Italia
Griseldaonline, 2021 This paper focuses on the rewriting of some of the Decameron’s novellas both as a literary form, and as narrative patterns, by La Fontaine and Casti – for whose version of Boccaccio the former is an important intertext. La Fontaine and Casti’s rewritings
Filippo Fonio
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Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 285-301, September 2025.Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 119-150, March 2024.Abstract Degrammaticalisation is an oft‐dismissed category of language change. In this paper evidence is provided for its existence, its triggers, and its conditions. This case study details the development of an understudied Old Italo‐Romance indefinite, covelle, a polarity‐sensitive item roughly translating as ‘anything’ which originated from a Latin
Nicola D’Antuono
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Risonanze classiche nel racconto della peste del Decameron
Acta PoéticaIn questo testo si propone una lettura della peste raccontata nel Decameron che prenda in esame la presenza di possibili stratificazioni o risonanze di fonti antiche e medievali che si possono intuire nel racconto che Giovanni Boccaccio offre all’inizio ...
Giuditta Cavalletti
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Community, Survival, and the Arts in the Boccaccian Tradition
Modern Languages Open, 2023 This essay brings Edgar Allan Poes Masque of the Red Death into dialogue with Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron, a fourteenth-century Italian text. Though different in scale, both texts start with an experience of plague and follow a group of people who ...
Jennifer Rushworth
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From plague to plague: COVID‐19 and the New Decameron(s)
International Social Science Journal, Volume 74, Issue 251, Page 25-36, March 2024.Abstract This article reflects on the role of narration in times of crisis. Drawing on studies on storytelling and bibliotherapy, it compares the Decameron, a collection of short stories written during and immediately after the 1348 Black Death, with two Decameron‐based collections written during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The New York ...
Valerio Angeletti
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Medievalia, 2016 Ventosidades, culos y otros elementos del realismo grotesco en el relato breve (el Decamerón, los Cuentos de Canterbury, las Cent Nouvelles nouvelles)
Gabriela Nava
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“Alguma força com aparência de razão”: direito, juristas e poder constituinte em "Decameron"
Anamorphosis, 2018 O presente ensaio apresenta Decameron, de Giovanni Boccaccio, como um texto clássico da literatura que contém antecipações e inovações fundamentais das categorias políticas da modernidade: o contratualismo, o poder constituinte, a deliberação ...
Alberto Vespaziani
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Las traducciones castellanas de las opere vulgari de Boccaccio
Revista de Literatura Medieval, 2022 Se ofrece un panorama sobre la recepción en España de la obra en lengua italiana de Boccaccio –Filocolo (Questioni d’amore), Teseida y Fiammetta– a través de sus traducciones.
David González Ramírez
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L’expression du hasard et sa fonction narrative dans le Décaméron
Italies, 2005 Boccace hérite d’une notion complexe de hasard, liée à la tradition savante de la philosophie, distinguant fortuna (pouvoir) et caso (événement effet de la fortuna) et passée dans le sens commun.
René Stella
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