Boccaccio tra storia e invenzione: Dal De fide uxorium erga viros di Valerio Massimo al De mulieribus claris

Abstract

This article sheds light on the technique of amplificatio by which Boccaccio expands the stories of famous women he finds in Valerius Maximus's De fide uxorium. Boccaccio's work on famous women situates itself between the genres of fiction and the historical treatise. It analyzes in philological detail Boccaccio's citation technique and his elaboration of the ancient model, showing how the greatest narrator of the Italian Middle Ages revitalizes and actualizes it and crafts an original literary product.

Keywords:

• Boccaccio
• De fide uxorium
• De mulieribus claris
• Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium
• Libia
• Valerius Maximus