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The Consolation of Literature: Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Covid-19 Pandemic
New Chaucer Studies, 2021 Engaging with plague literature such as Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron during the COVID-19 pandemic arguably enhances our understanding of medieval depictions of the plague. At the same time, medieval descriptions of the pestilence reflect on our current
Katrin Rupp
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'Il n'est rien qu'on conte en diverses façons'. The journey of the novella from Boccaccio's Decameron to La Fontaine's Contes [PDF]
, 2022 openIl lavoro mira ad analizzare l’influenza del Decameron di Giovanni Boccaccio sui Contes et nouvelles en vers di Jean de La Fontaine. Lo studio, dopo una trattazione delle caratteristiche principali del Decameron, si concentra sulla fortuna del genere
CROCICCHIA, ELENA
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Da un italiano all’altro. Il “Decameron” di Aldo Busi [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2019 This contribution examines Aldo Busi’s 1990 translation of the Decameron from fourteenth-century Italian into the modern language. More specifically, it analyses the techniques adopted by Busi and his interpretive choices, focusing on the lexical and ...
Chiara Natoli
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Altre Modernità, 2022 This article aims at investigating two narratives about historical moments of sociopolitical, economic, and cultural crisis represented through literary descriptions of epidemics.
Alice Balestrino
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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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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 Perspectivas del siglo XIV: el cuento VI, I del Decamerón de Boccaccio (o de cómo hacer cosas con palabras)
Ana Basarte
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¿Traducción o traición? Notas sobre el tránsito del Decameron a Las Cient novelas de Boccaccio
Studia Aurea: Revista de Literatura Española y Teoría Literaria del Renacimiento y Siglo de Oro, 2018 El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar algunas parcelas de la recepción del Decameron en la literatura española, y en especial, el cambio de título y la consecuente pérdida del mensaje moral en la traducción castellana Las Cient novelas de Bocacio.
Marco Federici
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