Open AccessThe Novella as an Alternative to Fishing in Girolamo Parabosco’s Diporti (XVI c.)
Author(s) -
Petya Petkova-Staleva
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
godišnik čuždi ezici i kulturi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2603-4204
DOI - 10.33919/flcy.19.2.8
Subject(s) - novella , theme (computing) , argument (complex analysis) , literature , poetry , history , frame (networking) , art , computer science , biology , world wide web , telecommunications , biochemistry
The article analyses a little-explored collection of short stories – novellas – by the sixteenth-century Italian novelist Girolamo Parabosco. The argument is developed that in Diporti several innovative features occur for the first time. While following the structure of Boccaccio’s frame novel, the text refrains from imposing a common theme and digresses into several alternative genres, such as discussions, poetry, comment.