Il contagio e la parola onesta - Interpretare Boccaccio
ISSN: 2611 - 1489
Language: Italian
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
Description
Il contagio e la parola onesta - Interpretare Boccaccio
The Decameron originates from a getaway: ten young women and men move away from Florence, tormented by the plague, to try and save themselves from the threat of contagion.
There are many possible explanations of the choice made by the “honest group”, such as surviving strategy, social experiment, social refounding project.
In this book Carmelo Tramontana faces the theme of the symbolic contagion the young are trying to neutralise thanks to an antique and yet unexpectedly modern for the plague time: reconquering human life using literature, inventing, narrating and interpreting facts, events, existences. The analysis is conducted through the pages of the Preface, the Introduction and the Conclusion of the masterpiece by Boccaccio’s, using as well emblematic novels (such as Ciappelletto e Griselda, the first and the last from the book Galeotto) and the laboratory of Boccaccio, in which Dante and his model are central.
