The Novella as an Alternative to Fishing in Girolamo Parabosco’s Diporti (XVI c.) | Zendy

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The Novella as an Alternative to Fishing in Girolamo Parabosco’s Diporti (XVI c.)

Author(s) -

Petya Petkova-Staleva

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

yearbook of the department of foreign languages and cultures

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.

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