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oapen-20.500.12657-627042024-03-28T08:18:45Z Chapter «E la nodosa podagra, con gravissima noia di chi l’ha, tiene tutto il corpo quasi imobile e contratto». Note sul lessico medico-anatomico nel Boccaccio volgare De Vecchis, Kevin lexicon medicinal language anatomic language Boccaccio thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing After providing a brief description of medicine in the Middle Ages, the work collects and examines the terms attested in three vernacular works by Boccaccio (Decameron, Corbaccio and Esposizioni sopra la Comedia) that can be classified in the medical lexicon. The aim of the paper is to verify the importance that this lexical sector has in Boccaccio’s vernacular production, by identifying possible differences (qualitative as well as quantitative) between the three works examined and, through the specific examination of a particular case (the sequence nodosa podagra), to show the usefulness of a more in-depth lexical analysis also to clarify Boccaccio’s sources. 2023-05-01T13:41:19Z 2023-05-01T13:41:19Z 2022 chapter ONIX_20230501_9788855186681_120 2704-5919 9788855186681 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62704 ita Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International chapter-36766.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-668-1_7 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-668-1.05 After providing a brief description of medicine in the Middle Ages, the work collects and examines the terms attested in three vernacular works by Boccaccio (Decameron, Corbaccio and Esposizioni sopra la Comedia) that can be classified in the medical lexicon. The aim of the paper is to verify the importance that this lexical sector has in Boccaccio’s vernacular production, by identifying possible differences (qualitative as well as quantitative) between the three works examined and, through the specific examination of a particular case (the sequence nodosa podagra), to show the usefulness of a more in-depth lexical analysis also to clarify Boccaccio’s sources. 10.36253/978-88-5518-668-1.05 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855186681 244 16 Florence open access
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After providing a brief description of medicine in the Middle Ages, the work collects and examines the terms attested in three vernacular works by Boccaccio (Decameron, Corbaccio and Esposizioni sopra la Comedia) that can be classified in the medical lexicon. The aim of the paper is to verify the importance that this lexical sector has in Boccaccio’s vernacular production, by identifying possible differences (qualitative as well as quantitative) between the three works examined and, through the specific examination of a particular case (the sequence nodosa podagra), to show the usefulness of a more in-depth lexical analysis also to clarify Boccaccio’s sources.
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