Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: The Decameron Tradition

Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: The Decameron Tradition

Marafioti, Martin

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1409406415
ISBN13: 9781409406419
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 19 2017
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Through close readings of five Italian collections of novellas written over a 500-year period, Martin Marafioti explores the literary tradition of storytelling, and particularly its efficacy as a prophylactic tool following traumatic visitations from the plague. The texts examined include Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, which provides the framework for later authors; Franco Sacchetti's Trecento Novelle; Giovanni Sercambi's Novelliere; Celio Malespini's Duecento Novelle; and Francesco Argelati's Decamerone.

Also from

Marafioti, Martin

View All

Also in

Literary Criticism

View All