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Moving from the studies carried out by Alfredo Schiaffini and Vittore Branca on Boccaccio’s reuse, in its prosaic masterpieces (the Filocolo, the Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta and the Decameron), of mediaeval rhetorical-rhythmics rules, the essay offers an analysis of cursus applied to Decameron, reali...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-561772022-06-02T03:23:17Z Chapter Ad alta voce: l’essenza fonico-acustica e gestuale del cursus nel Decameron Mondani, Paola Cursus Prose rhythm Rhetoric Boccaccio Decameron Moving from the studies carried out by Alfredo Schiaffini and Vittore Branca on Boccaccio’s reuse, in its prosaic masterpieces (the Filocolo, the Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta and the Decameron), of mediaeval rhetorical-rhythmics rules, the essay offers an analysis of cursus applied to Decameron, realized by separating the text into three parts: introductive-proemial section, narrative section and dialogue section. The rhetorical devices are more strictly employed both in the first part, when the author or the internal storytellers speak, and into speeches given by characters in the middle of the narration. This, according to the original function of Greek cursus, would suggest its use in Boccaccio’s prose as a mimetic device, that replicates the oratory declamation. 2022-06-01T12:15:39Z 2022-06-01T12:15:39Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855182362_360 2704-5919 9788855182362 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56177 ita Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 15729.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-236-2_4 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.04 10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.04 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855182362 219 24 Florence open access
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