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oapen-20.500.12657-582922022-09-16T03:14:26Z Chapter «Ut testatur Ovidius»: Boccaccio lettore dei commenti alle Metamorfosi Ciccone, Lisa Exegesis Ovid Myth Allegory bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies The article investigates the relationship between Boccaccio's Genealogie and the exegesis of Ovid's Metamorphoses. For each character included in his genealogy, Boccaccio reports first of all the contents of the myth related to it and then the different literal and allegorical interpretations. The main sources are, besides Ovid, Paolo da Perugia and a mysterious Theodontius, who can be identified with a commentary on the Metamorphoses produced in the 11th or 12th century. The article aims to demonstrate that Boccaccio follows the method used by medieval exegetes of the Metamorphoses: rejecting the pagan contents of the myth, the commentators offered an allegorical and moralising interpretation, in fact rewriting the Metamorphoses as a 'medieval' work. 2022-09-15T20:07:23Z 2022-09-15T20:07:23Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220915_9788855182362_88 2704-5919 9788855182362 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58292 ita Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 978-88-5518-236-2_5.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-236-2_5 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.05 The article investigates the relationship between Boccaccio's Genealogie and the exegesis of Ovid's Metamorphoses. For each character included in his genealogy, Boccaccio reports first of all the contents of the myth related to it and then the different literal and allegorical interpretations. The main sources are, besides Ovid, Paolo da Perugia and a mysterious Theodontius, who can be identified with a commentary on the Metamorphoses produced in the 11th or 12th century. The article aims to demonstrate that Boccaccio follows the method used by medieval exegetes of the Metamorphoses: rejecting the pagan contents of the myth, the commentators offered an allegorical and moralising interpretation, in fact rewriting the Metamorphoses as a 'medieval' work. 10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.05 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855182362 219 15 Florence open access
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The article investigates the relationship between Boccaccio's Genealogie and the exegesis of Ovid's Metamorphoses. For each character included in his genealogy, Boccaccio reports first of all the contents of the myth related to it and then the different literal and allegorical interpretations. The main sources are, besides Ovid, Paolo da Perugia and a mysterious Theodontius, who can be identified with a commentary on the Metamorphoses produced in the 11th or 12th century. The article aims to demonstrate that Boccaccio follows the method used by medieval exegetes of the Metamorphoses: rejecting the pagan contents of the myth, the commentators offered an allegorical and moralising interpretation, in fact rewriting the Metamorphoses as a 'medieval' work.
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