Decameron,
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Composed between 1349 and 1351, the measure is more complete and mature boccacciana of narrative technique, which is in novel form of an effective method of expression ductile enough to be inserted in the closed structure, characteristic of medieval systematic spirit. At the opening of Boccaccio puts a caption that explains the title: "Start the book called Decameron, surnamed prince Jailbird, which is contained in ten of one hundred stories told by seven women and three young men." The name derives from the greek deka Decameron (= ten) Cameron (= days, gen.plur.) And perhaps traced from the titles of works of the Fathers of the Church, based on the six days of creation (for example the famous Hexaemeron). The "name" Jailbird is a clear literary reference to the direction of Dante's "galley slave was he who wrote the book" (Inferno V, 137) in which the French novel Lancelot bring about love between Paul and Francesca as well as the rider Galehaut acts as an intermediary in the love between Lancelot and Guinevere. Boccaccio also wants to be as mediator against women, telling stories that are of comfort to their heartbreak. The book is a collection of one hundred short stories, told by ten young men, seven girls and three boys, within ten days. The stories, in fact, are exposed by Boccaccio in a closed structure, the frame (narrated by the author himself), that ordering and structuring the narrative material, which itself consists of a wide variety of tones and a field very heterogeneous. The narrative frame-
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in 1348, in Florence raging fever (which Boccaccio gives a vivid description): a spring morning, seven girls and three men find themselves in the church of Santa Maria Novella, and together they decide to move away from the atmosphere insane and deadly the city to find refuge and escape in the countryside of Fiesole, where he will lead a short period of time devoted to refined and aristocratic entertainments such as singing, dancing, conversations and story telling. Will be chosen for each day a king or a queen, who will have the task of choosing the topic of the novels (only Dioneo will have the privilege of talking about a free theme). Although the time spent outside Florence lasts for two weeks, the days are ten of the narrative, as the Friday and Saturday will be devoted to religious practices. Each day ends with a ballad, sung from time to time by a different character. The idea of \u200b\u200bcollecting the material within a frame narrative is taken up by Indian and Arabic short stories (think of the Thousand and One Nights), but also from the medieval Latin literature and romance. The use of the frame, however, also reflects the trend typical medieval setting out and classification of knowledge into a solid structure and symmetrical architecture, rich in symbolism, despite the variety of matter.
The scheme of the arguments: The day
: Pampinea Regiment, which leaves everyone free "of such matters which most will be able to"
day II: Filomena "who infested by different things, and besides his failed hope a happy end."
III: Neifile: "no house lot from him who desired to buy the industry lost hospitalized.
IV: Philostratus, "those whose loves had a disastrous end."
V: Fiammetta, "what with a lover, after some unfortunate accidents or proud, happy happening."
VI: Elissa: "who with some lovely motto, tried, shook itself, or by some ready retort or device have fled danger or loss or shame. "
VII: Dioneo" jokes, which, or to love or to save them, women have made to 'their husbands, without essersene wise or not. "
VIII: Lauretta:" those tricks that all day man or woman to woman or man to man one or the other will do. "
IX: Emilia:" we reason that they like each second and what he likes best. "
X : Panfilo Who liberally or anything magnificently operates around 'the facts of love or of another thing. "
the provision of the topics and themes have been read many meanings as they have in a system in perfect symmetry and parallels. Branca, for example, you read a sort of ideal itinerary, outlining a progression from vice to virtue, from evil to good, in analogy to Dante's Divine Comedy. It has been at the acento then on the contrast between the character of Sir Ciappelletto, a statement of extreme ugliness and lies, and that of Griselda, an image of purity and sincerity. The main themes are Love, Ingenuity, Nature and Fortune (the latter are an obstacle to the events of the characters, which, according to their intelligence and their moral virtues, they can, each in its own way to overcome adversity).
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