%0 Journal Article
%T Renewal through the Classics: Irony, Parody, Intertextuality in the Decameron
%A Enrico Santangelo
%J Skepsi
%D 2008
%I University of Kent
%X The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the numerous textual references to classical literature which characterise Boccaccio¡¯s opus maius. Through a process of allusion, ¡®sympathy¡¯, irony and parody Boccaccio manages to renew ¨C i.e. reconstruct ¨C a new world, which has been defined as the ¡®Fall of the Middle Ages¡¯; but whilst the medieval models (apart from obvious quotations from Dante and Petrarch, Boccaccio¡¯s masters) are often ironized or parodied, the classical ones are contemporised and used as tools for the (re)composition of a new literature and a new society.
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