Boccaccio e l’immagine mimetica

Autore: Marco Ruffini
In: Critica del testo. XVI/3, 2013
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Abstract

Boccaccio e l’immagine mimetica
Boccaccio’s interest in the visual arts – evident at the level of the content in the Decameron, due to a presence of artists and artworks unprecedented in literature – is in the first place connected to the literary experimentalism of the author on the form of the novella, the narrative unit of the book. This clearly emerges from a comparative analysis between the novella of Giotto and Forese (VI, 7), where Boccaccio explains to the reader the nature and functioning of the images painted by Giotto, and the novella of Lidia, Pirro, and Nicostrato, a short-story that does not deal with artists and artworks but dedicated to the experience of seeing.