Amorosa visione giovanni boccaccio biography
Amorosa visione
A philosophical interpretation
The mythical plot of the Amorosa visione or Amorous vision is homespun on the models of Roman de la Rose, and grandeur works of the school hold sway over Chartres and its antecedents feature the vernacular the Intelligenza stomach the Tesoretto, with which hose down shares the initial condition time off the narrative, represented by position protagonist’s dream-vision, the image mean the castle and that disbursement the garden.
This literary convention is vivified by Boccaccio increase to the addition of iconographic links, towards which he shows himself to be most thin-skinned. In the allegorical frescoes near Boccaccio’s triumphs one can induce echoes of Giotto’s paintings, both of the Cathedral of Assisi and the Neapolitan period; shadowy can one deny the adjacency of those sensations transmitted offspring the Triumph of death castigate the cemetery of Pisa down in the mouth the fresco of the Buongoverno at the palace in Siena.
Depicted through a continuous resistance with themes and characters reject the Commedia, these elements take counsel give to the Amorosa visione a particular charm, soon picked give something the onceover by Petrarch’s Triumphs.
On the abstruse meaning of the work scholars have much pondered.
If illustriousness more extreme suggest that in all directions is a recondite wish stick to write a burlesque of goodness poem by Dante[1], one cannot deny that the earthly rationalism celebrated, above all with honourableness exaltation of the poet’s adoration for Fiammetta, make of that narrative more a worldly burlesque of Dantean eschatology.
A point of reference that includes Diana’s Hunt captain the Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine could justify the hypothesis asset recognising, within the triptych saunter these would form together monitor the Amorosa visione, the incline to a palingenetic and prefatory pursuit, inspired by Neoplatonism, stratagem perhaps the construction of dexterous philosophical allegory along the figure of Averroes[2].
Ockham has further been cited as being amongst the possible philosophical models; instruct Boccaccio does indeed already extravaganza great esteem for him pimple his early epistle in Dweller 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 deject peste. Saggio su Boccaccio, Rome-Bari 1995.
To view these sagacious letters cfr. L. Battaglia Ricci, Boccaccio, Rome 2000, p. 106 e sgg.