Riassunto lisabetta da messina novella boccaccio biography

  • His first novel was the Filocolo between 1336-1338, about the lovers Florio and Biancifiore.
  • Therefore, the pot of basil in Boccaccio's tale is Lorenzo's tomb, and Lisabetta beheads her dead lover in order to be able to perform suitable funeral rites.
  • Elisabetta da Messina, la figlia del mercante, ha 3 fratelli, ma il padre muore quindi i fratelli devono decidere chi deve sposare Elisabetta.

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    Lisabetta and Lorenzo’s tomb (on Decameron IV 5), «Italica» 94.3 (Fall 2017), pp. 431-447

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    Religiosa sunt ubi cadauer hominis integrum uel etiam caput tantum sepelitur quia nemo potest duas sepulturas habere, corpus uero uel aliquod aliud membrum absque capite sepultum non facit locum religiosum.

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    Religious places are those where an intact human cadaver, or at least a head is buried; since no one can have two sepulchers, a body or any other members buried without the head does not constitute a religious place (Thibodeau 54).

    Ending his treatise, Durand explicitly declares that he has made use of a multitude of sources. The most interesting for the subject at hand is a text whose manuscript tradition is of the same order of magnitude as that of Dante's Commedia: Justinian's Digest (11.7.44).

    PAULUS libro tertio quaestionum Cum in diversis locis sepultum est, uterque quidem locus religiosus non fit, quia una sepultura plura sepulchra efficere non potest: mihi autem vid

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    The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective 9781487536312

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    THE DECAMERON FOURTH DAY IN PERSPECTIVE

    The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective Volume Four of the Lectura Boccaccii

    EDITED BY MICHAEL SHERBERG

    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London

    ©  University of Toronto Press 2020   

    ISBN 978-1-4875-3632-9 (ePUB) ISBN 978-1-4875-3631-2 (PDF)

    Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: The Decameron fourth day in perspective / edited by Michael Sherberg. Names: Sherberg, Michael, editor. Series: Toronto Italian studies. | Toronto Italian studies. Lectura Boccaccii ; v. 4. Description: Series statement: Toronto Italian studies | Lectura Boccacci ;   volume 4 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 2020023143X | Canadiana (ebook) 20200231626| ISBN 9781487507473 (cloth) | ISBN 9781487536329 (EPUB) | ISBN   9781487536312 (PDF) Subjects: LCSH: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313–1375. Decamerone. Classi

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    Spinning Yarns in Decameron IV.7

    Magnanini, Suzanne. "Spinning Yarns in Decameron IV.7". The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective, edited bygd Michael Sherberg, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020, pp. 124-144. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487536312-011

    Magnanini, S. (2020). Spinning Yarns in Decameron IV.7. In M. Sherberg (Ed.), The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective (pp. 124-144). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487536312-011

    Magnanini, S. 2020. Spinning Yarns in Decameron IV.7. In: Sherberg, M. ed. The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 124-144. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487536312-011

    Magnanini, Suzanne. "Spinning Yarns in Decameron IV.7" In The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective edited bygd Michael Sherberg, 124-144. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487536312-011

    Magnanini S. Spinning Yarns in Decameron IV.7. In: Sherberg M (ed.) The Decameron F