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Chapter Il fantasma di Alatiel: desiderio, parola e memoria in Decameron II 7

dc.contributor.authorPetriccione, Matteo
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-22T04:02:33Z
dc.date.available2022-09-22T04:02:33Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.submitted2022-09-15T20:07:26Z
dc.identifierONIX_20220915_9788855182362_91
dc.identifier2704-5919
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58295
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92225
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.languageItalian
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudi e saggi
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherAlatiel
dc.subject.otherlove
dc.subject.otherimagination
dc.subject.othermorals
dc.subject.otherfortune.
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
dc.titleChapter Il fantasma di Alatiel: desiderio, parola e memoria in Decameron II 7
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.03
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a
oapen.relation.isbn9788855182362
oapen.pages15
oapen.place.publicationFlorence
dc.seriesnumber219
dc.abstractotherlanguageThe 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.


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