Giovanni Boccaccio is quoted several times in Castiglione’s Cortegiano, but all these mentions are inserted in two specific contexts: on the one hand, the debate on literary language, developed in the letter of dedication to don Michel De Silva and in the first book; on the other hand, the definition of the joke in book II. Starting from these premises, this essay analyses the meanings of Boccaccio’s presence in the Cortegiano. It shows that Castiglione’s treatise provides two different and concurrent representations of the author of the Decameron: a positive one, connected to the ‘questione della lingua’, that offers Boccaccio as a promoter of the usage (‘uso’); a critical one, deriving from the theory of the ‘facezia’, that makes Boccaccio a challenging and challenged model.
University of Verona, Italy
Chapter Title
Il Boccaccio di Baldassar Castiglione: la duplice immagine del Certaldese nelle pagine del Cortegiano
Authors
Flavia Palma
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.14
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Publication Year
2020
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Book Title
Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2019
Book Subtitle
Atti del Seminario internazionale di studi (Certaldo Alta, Casa di Giovanni Boccaccio, 12-13 settembre 2019)
Editors
Giovanna Frosini
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Number of Pages
294
Publication Year
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-235-5
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-236-2
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-237-9
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919