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Hardcover Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction Book
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ISBN: 0472111647

ISBN13: 9780472111640

Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction

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While still a university student of church law in Naples, Boccaccio completed his Filocolo, a monumental romance that retells the famous medieval legend of Florio and Biancifiore. To rescue his source tale from "the fabulous parlance of the ignorant," Boccaccio created a marvelous Gothic literary microcosm, an encyclopedia of vernacular poetics, and the most ambitious prose fiction at that time in any European language.
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