Boccaccio e la letteratura religiosa: la Prima e la Seconda Giornata del Decameron

Boccaccio e la letteratura religiosa: la Prima e la Seconda Giornata del Decameron
It has already been demonstrated that the first three tales from the First Day have close ties to religious literature and serve either a comic or a parodic purpose. The tales from the Second Day, though heavily influenced by Romance literature, also owe much to religious writings. In fact, the two initial tales strongly influence the later tales of that day in their mostly but not exclusively parodic use of the stories of the lives of the saints.