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Record Nr.

UNINA9910491051603321

Autore

Frosini Giovanna

Titolo

Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e Dintorni 2019 : Atti Del Seminario Internazionale Di Studi (Certaldo Alta, Casa Di Giovanni Boccaccio, 12-13 Settembre 2019)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Florence, : Firenze University Press, 2020

Florence : , : Firenze University Press, , 2020

©2020

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (15 p.)

Collana

Studi e saggi

Soggetti

Literature & literary studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The aim of this essay is to analyse the story of Alatiel in its philosophical context, comparing the novella with the erotic and ethic conceptions in Middle Ages. From this point of view, it is possible to recognize two models in the story: the first is embodied by the lovers of the young woman and their savage behaviour, which seems to annihilate reason and morals, in line with the comment of Dino del Garbo to Donna me Prega. The second model is proposed by Alatiel, forced to indulge fortune’s will. Around this antithesis Boccaccio develops his narrative technique, switching focalization from Alatiel to her lovers, and again to Alatiel, to debate about one of the most important themes of the whole Decameron: human action between the context created by the fortune and moral choice.