Vol. 3 No. 3 (2022): Una / Κοινῇ - Journal of Classical Studies and their Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
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“Novellette” (fables) in Luigi Pulci’s Morgante

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  • Paolo Orvieto
Paolo Orvieto
Università di Firenze
Published December 19, 2022
Keywords
  • Pulci,
  • Morgante,
  • Aesop,
  • fables,
  • translations into vernacular
How to Cite
Orvieto, P. (2022). “Novellette” (fables) in Luigi Pulci’s Morgante. Una Κοινῇ - Magazine of Studies on the Classic and Its Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, 3(3), 31-61. Retrieved from https://unakoine.it/index.php/unaK/article/view/102

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Abstract

The present essay analyzes the various fables included in Luigi Pulci’s Morgante and, secondly, how some well-known preachers from XV Century, such as Bernardino da Siena, employ fables in their preaching. Fable emerges as a genre that persists from Esopo/Fredo and the teatrises on rethoric, up to the most renowned medioeval collections, and to italian translations into vernacular. And yet, every time fables are told they are remodeled to suit new morals and the new historical and antropoligical environments.

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