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Some differences and striking similarrities about:
Boccaccio's…
Some differences and striking similarrities about:
Boccaccio's Decameron
and
Chaucer's Canterbury tales
: :
They both use
Place sermons delivered by highly skilled preachers very nearly at the centre of their story collections.
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The coincidences
In genre, character,theme, and placement becomes expecially intresting if there's a chance that Chaucer knew the Decameron and its tale of Fra Cipolla.
There are ,infact,differents opinions about this essay.
Robert A. Pratt and Karl Young (1941s):
Chaucer doesen't mention the Decameron, he borrowed no stories directly from it
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BOTH
Place multiple storytellers whithin a frame wich create the illusion of historycity(**pilgimage in Chaucer, a retreat to the countryside during the Black death in Boccaccio**), and both the storytellers are felt as presences within their colllection of tales,(Chaucer as one of the Canerbury pilgrims and Boccaccioas a narrational voice outside of the frame wich nevertheless,frequently intrudes) *
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THEY'RE ESSENTIALLY
Examples of the most common literary genre encountered by the average medioeval person-the sermon- and that they are delivered by corrupt preachers who exemplyfy mastery of their craft.
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