The Nymph of Fiesole. Ninfale Fiesolano

1960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Boccaccio ◽  
Daniel J. Donno ◽  
Angela Conner
Keyword(s):  
Ninfale Fiesolano

Ninfale Fiesolano

Italica ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Fabian Alfie ◽  
Giovanni Boccaccio ◽  
Pier Massimo Forni
Keyword(s):  
Ninfale Fiesolano

scholarly journals Ninfale fiesolano

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-149
Author(s):  
Giovanni Boccaccio (book author) ◽  
Ada Testaferri (review author)
Keyword(s):  
Ninfale Fiesolano

The World of Boccaccio's Filocolo

PMLA ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 76 (4-Part1) ◽  
pp. 330-339
Author(s):  
Nicolas J. Perella
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Basic Design ◽  
The World ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Economic Position ◽  
Ninfale Fiesolano

Boccaccio's first work of importance is the Filocolo, a long rambling romance in prose, built around the well-known medieval legend of Florio and Biancofiore which it grieved the author to see relegated to the “fabulosi parlari degli ignoranti.” Boccaccio, that is, wished to ennoble the popular legend by giving it a literary and artistic dignity that it lacked in the oral tradition and in the French and Italian sources available to him. The very choice of the story is significant, for in its basic design it represents a theme that Boccaccio was to treat with predilection and consummate art in later works such as the Ninfale Fiesolano and several tales of the Decameron: the natural or instinctive love that attracts two young people of the opposite sex and the persistence of their love against the obstacles erected by an unsympathetic law or by class-conscious relatives concerned with preserving the distinctions created by social and economic position. In the Filocolo, however, this simple outline serves only as the nucleus or skeleton of a story of epic dimensions, for Boccaccio creates such Odyssean adventures for his separated lovers as to make for a seemingly endless and chaotic unfolding in which Virgil, Ovid, and Dante are only the most obvious and persistent influences.

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