The Merchant and the Sacred: Artifice and Realism in Decameron I.1

By Susanna Barsella

By investigating the first novella of the Decameron from the perspective of the sacred this article questions the notion of realism as privileged key to the interpretation of Boccaccio’s style, poetics, and even philosophy in his major work.…

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