LAW AND ITS TRANSGRESSIONS: MIGHT WE LEARN FROM GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO?

none1nohe Decameron novels represent an increasingly complex society. Several disciplines were developing, especially medicine, philosophy, law and literature. Boccaccio, who studied law for six years as mandated by his father, was an expert in both the literary and legal fields. The Decameron provides exceptional evidence of his knowledge of the law as well as his legal practice. This article aims to explore the opposition of natural law and positive law as it emerges in the plot of the Decameron and in the short stories of Martellino (II, 1) and of Madonna Filippa (VI, 7).mixedDANIELA BUCCOMINODANIELA BUCCOMIN