Il Lanval umanistico di Masuccio Salernitano

• Autores: Giulia Depoli
• Localización: Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, ISSN 0017-0496, Vol. 199, Nº. 668, 2022, págs. 522-542
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • This article proposes an analysis of the 26th novella in Masuccio Salternitano’s Novellino (1476), identifying it as an unusual re-elaboration of Marie de France’s Lanval, imbued with the humanistic notion of amicitia. While in the original text, the main characters’ love cannot be revealed given the supernatural condition of the fairy mistress (implicitly in line with the rules of courtly love), in the novella the protagonist is concerned primarily with protecting her own reputation and preventing her secrets from being spread among friends who, instead of embracing the ideal of perfect virtue in vogue in the Quattrocento, represent a crude parody of it. The article highlights the breadth and variety of Masuccio’s cultural background, which included not only French models but also the humanistic writings of his time, aspects which until recently have been overlooked by scholars