Book ID: CBB984525452

Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: The Decameron Tradition (2017)

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Martin Marafioti (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 154
Language: English

Through close readings of five Italian collections of novellas written over a 500-year period, Martin Marafioti explores the literary tradition of storytelling, and particularly its efficacy as a healing tool following traumatic visitations from the plague. In this study, Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron provides the framework for later authors. Although Boccaccio was not the first writer to deal with pestilence or epidemics in a literary work, he was the first to unite the topos of a life-threatening context with a public health disaster like the Black Death, and certainly the first author to propose storytelling as a means of prophylaxis in times of plague. Marafioti goes on to analyze Franco Sacchetti's Trecento Novelle, Giovanni Sercambi's Novelliere, Celio Malespini's Duecento Novelle, and Francesco Argelati's Decamerone, following in its longue-durée the ups and down, structurally and thematically, of the realistic novella as a genre.

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Authors & Contributors
Alberto Luongo
Samantha Mattocci
Speziale, Salvatore
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
Maria Paola Zanoboni
Pittalis, Edoardo
Concepts
Plague
Epidemics
Public health
Medicine
Medicine and literature
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
Medieval
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
17th century
Ancient
Places
Italy
United States
Mediterranean region
Spain
Europe
England
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