In the history of scholarship on vernacular style, rhetoric, and prose rhythm, very little space has been given to 14th-century Tuscan short stories writers, such as Ser Giovanni, Franco Sacchetti, and Giovanni Sercambi. This article analyzes Ser Giovanni’s Pecorone with the aim of individuating stylistic, rhetorical, and rhythmic elements and of understanding their relationship with its model, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. Although Ser Giovanni did not have a direct knowledge of the artes dictaminis, the article shows how his deep reading of Boccaccio’s Decameron permitted him to recognize and put to use many of the rhetorical expedients he found in it.
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Chapter Title
Elementi stilistici decameroniani nel Pecorone di ser Giovanni
Authors
Nicola Esposito
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-668-1.07
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2022
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Book Title
Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2021
Book Subtitle
Atti del Seminario internazionale di studi (Certaldo Alta, Casa di Giovanni Boccaccio, 9-10 settembre 2021)
Editors
Monica Berté
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
200
Publication Year
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-668-1
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-667-4
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-668-1
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919