Fiammetta

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Edité par Firenze, 1724

A propos de cet article

In Italian, no printer (to avoid the inquisitor). 172 pag. + 4 index. 200x130 mm. The original binding of the period is in bad condition. The previous owner has used a page taken from a book of Georgic by Virgil, as DW, in thick paper. It contains the original latin version and the Italian translation of the famous poem about Nisus. ex libris. This is a psychological novel in a modern language, "the Elegy of Lady Fiammetta", (Boccaccio) successfully bridged the gap between allegory and introspective narrative by giving shape to a character who encompasses realistic and archetypal qualities. .Scholars agree on the date of composition of The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta established between 1343 and 1345. Boccaccio was in his early thirties and was trying to make a name for himself in Florence, as a citizen and Poet, after having spent many years in Naples. The work is generally recognized as a turning point in his career. The large number of manuscripts of the Elegy - over seventy - .seems to prove its popularity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. As the first psychological novel in a modern language and a forerunner of stream-of-consciousness fiction, the .Fiammetta is one of the earliest and most remarkable, if still largely unexplored, artistic achievements of European literature. . The extraordinary nature of the Elegy stems partially from the crucial fact that it was created by a man who writes pretending to be a woman. Furthermore, this woman, the Lady Fiammetta, writes in the first person and announces herself from the very outset as an unspoken feminist." Mariangela Causa-Steindler.

N° de réf. du vendeur 1744

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Fiammetta
• Éditeur: Firenze
• Date de parution: 1724
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket