Add to ORKGAccording to all of Boccaccio’s interpreters, the notion of ‘industria’ deeply connotes his major work and the ethical vision it presents. But how are we to define this notion? The claim of this essay is that in Decameron Day III ‘industria’ should not be identified simply with the wide-ranging ideas of ingenuity, skill, or astuteness that have been discussed in Boccaccio scholarship. While including all the semantic fields mentioned above, Decameronian ‘industria’ refers to a specific philosophical concept, dinotica (deinótes), which is described in Aristotle’s Ethics as the mental faculty that achieves the goals dictated by desire. Breaking with the medieval tradition that contrasted fortune to moral virtue, Decameron Day III suggests tha...
My dissertation analyzes the assumptions and anxieties the Decameron, in complete and expurgated for...
A reading of Boccaccio's poetics in the Decameron from the perspective of his interpretative strateg...
A reading of Boccaccio's interpretation of Venus in the Genealogy of the Pagan Gods and its implicat...
According to all of Boccaccio’s interpreters, the notion of ‘industria’ deeply connotes his major wo...
My dissertation provides insight into the academic debate concerning the moral message of Giovanni B...
This paper shows the influence of Aristotle’s Ethics on Decameron, V 9. In the narrative perspective...
The dissertation examines the philosophical implications of the Decameron in connection with Boccacc...
This essay aims to examine the philosophic sources behind the representation of passions in Boccacci...
This paper points out a new philosophic source of Decameron First Day, that is, books III and IV of ...
Two great thematic currents — one ontological, the other ethical — pulse through the Decameron, thro...
Nelle opere di Boccaccio il tema della fortuna è inquadrato in una duplice prospettiva: la prima vic...
It is a well known fact that Boccaccio’s The Decameron has been strongly influenced by Dante’s The D...
By considering three different instances of Aristotelian intertextuality in the Decameron, this pape...
The paper outlines the interdiscursive connections between Decameron, II 7 and one of the most debat...
This thesis examines the representations of Fortune in Boccaccio's Filostrato, Chaucer's Troilus and...
My dissertation analyzes the assumptions and anxieties the Decameron, in complete and expurgated for...
A reading of Boccaccio's poetics in the Decameron from the perspective of his interpretative strateg...
A reading of Boccaccio's interpretation of Venus in the Genealogy of the Pagan Gods and its implicat...
According to all of Boccaccio’s interpreters, the notion of ‘industria’ deeply connotes his major wo...
My dissertation provides insight into the academic debate concerning the moral message of Giovanni B...
This paper shows the influence of Aristotle’s Ethics on Decameron, V 9. In the narrative perspective...
The dissertation examines the philosophical implications of the Decameron in connection with Boccacc...
This essay aims to examine the philosophic sources behind the representation of passions in Boccacci...
This paper points out a new philosophic source of Decameron First Day, that is, books III and IV of ...
Two great thematic currents — one ontological, the other ethical — pulse through the Decameron, thro...
Nelle opere di Boccaccio il tema della fortuna è inquadrato in una duplice prospettiva: la prima vic...
It is a well known fact that Boccaccio’s The Decameron has been strongly influenced by Dante’s The D...
By considering three different instances of Aristotelian intertextuality in the Decameron, this pape...
The paper outlines the interdiscursive connections between Decameron, II 7 and one of the most debat...
This thesis examines the representations of Fortune in Boccaccio's Filostrato, Chaucer's Troilus and...
My dissertation analyzes the assumptions and anxieties the Decameron, in complete and expurgated for...
A reading of Boccaccio's poetics in the Decameron from the perspective of his interpretative strateg...
A reading of Boccaccio's interpretation of Venus in the Genealogy of the Pagan Gods and its implicat...