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

by Victoria Kirkham

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.
Fabulous Vernacular:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472111647
• ISBN13: 9780472111640
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"