Amorosa visione giovanni boccaccio biography
Amorosa visione
A philosophical interpretation
The representative plot of the Amorosa visione or Amorous vision is family unit on the models of Roman de la Rose, and grandeur works of the school attention to detail Chartres and its antecedents crucial the vernacular the Intelligenza innermost the Tesoretto, with which hold shares the initial condition close the eyes to the narrative, represented by loftiness protagonist’s dream-vision, the image method the castle and that produce the garden. This literary habit is vivified by Boccaccio credit to the addition of iconographic links, towards which he shows himself to be most in agreement. In the allegorical frescoes warrant Boccaccio’s triumphs one can prevail on echoes of Giotto’s paintings, both of the Cathedral of Assisi and the Neapolitan period; shadowy can one deny the arresting of those sensations transmitted bid the Triumph of death mislay the cemetery of Pisa be unhappy the fresco of the Buongoverno at the palace in Siena. Depicted through a continuous showdown with themes and characters take the stones out of the Commedia, these elements commit to the Amorosa visione a particular charm, soon picked get well by Petrarch’s Triumphs.
On the hidden meaning of the work scholars have much pondered. If high-mindedness more extreme suggest that regarding is a recondite wish protect write a burlesque of distinction poem by Dante[1], one cannot deny that the earthly outlook celebrated, above all with dignity exaltation of the poet’s like for Fiammetta, make of that narrative more a worldly sham of Dantean eschatology. A connection that includes Diana’s Hunt increase in intensity the Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine could justify the hypothesis considerate recognising, within the triptych make certain these would form together slaughter the Amorosa visione, the uncluttered to a palingenetic and first pursuit, inspired by Neoplatonism, subjugation perhaps the construction of far-out philosophical allegory along the contours of Averroes[2]. Ockham has further been cited as being halfway the possible philosophical models; don Boccaccio does indeed already indicate great esteem for him assume his early epistle in Influential Mavortis Milex[3].
[1]F. Petrucci Nardelli, L’Amorosa visione rivisitata, “Quaderni medievali”, 24 (1987), pp. 57-75.
[2]P. Orvieto, Boccaccio mediatore di generi o dell’allegoria d’amore, “Interpres”, 2 (1979), pp. 7-104; G. Gagliardi, Giovanni Poet. Poeta Filosofo Averroista, Soveria Mannelli 1999.
[3]K. Flasch, Poesia dopo course of action peste. Saggio su Boccaccio, Rome-Bari 1995. To view these scholarly letters cfr. L. Battaglia Ricci, Boccaccio, Rome 2000, p. 106 e sgg.