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oapen-20.500.12657-582952022-09-16T03:14:27Z Chapter Il fantasma di Alatiel: desiderio, parola e memoria in Decameron II 7 Petriccione, Matteo Alatiel love imagination morals fortune. bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies The aim of this essay is to analyse the story of Alatiel in its philosophical context, comparing the novella with the erotic and ethic conceptions in Middle Ages. From this point of view, it is possible to recognize two models in the story: the first is embodied by the lovers of the young woman and their savage behaviour, which seems to annihilate reason and morals, in line with the comment of Dino del Garbo to Donna me Prega. The second model is proposed by Alatiel, forced to indulge fortune’s will. Around this antithesis Boccaccio develops his narrative technique, switching focalization from Alatiel to her lovers, and again to Alatiel, to debate about one of the most important themes of the whole Decameron: human action between the context created by the fortune and moral choice. 2022-09-15T20:07:26Z 2022-09-15T20:07:26Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220915_9788855182362_91 2704-5919 9788855182362 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58295 ita Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 978-88-5518-236-2_3.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-236-2_3 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.03 The aim of this essay is to analyse the story of Alatiel in its philosophical context, comparing the novella with the erotic and ethic conceptions in Middle Ages. From this point of view, it is possible to recognize two models in the story: the first is embodied by the lovers of the young woman and their savage behaviour, which seems to annihilate reason and morals, in line with the comment of Dino del Garbo to Donna me Prega. The second model is proposed by Alatiel, forced to indulge fortune’s will. Around this antithesis Boccaccio develops his narrative technique, switching focalization from Alatiel to her lovers, and again to Alatiel, to debate about one of the most important themes of the whole Decameron: human action between the context created by the fortune and moral choice. 10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.03 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855182362 219 15 Florence open access
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The aim of this essay is to analyse the story of Alatiel in its philosophical context, comparing the novella with the erotic and ethic conceptions in Middle Ages. From this point of view, it is possible to recognize two models in the story: the first is embodied by the lovers of the young woman and their savage behaviour, which seems to annihilate reason and morals, in line with the comment of Dino del Garbo to Donna me Prega. The second model is proposed by Alatiel, forced to indulge fortune’s will. Around this antithesis Boccaccio develops his narrative technique, switching focalization from Alatiel to her lovers, and again to Alatiel, to debate about one of the most important themes of the whole Decameron: human action between the context created by the fortune and moral choice.
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