Decameron and the Philosophy of Storytelling: Author as Midwife and Pimp.(Book review) From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Richard Kuhns. Decameron and the Philosophy of Storytelling: Author as Midwife and Pimp.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxiii + 163 pp. + 6 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $40. ISBN: 0-231-13608-0.

In his Esposizioni sopra la Commedia, an incomplete commentary on Dante's Inferno, Boccaccio twice invokes a passage from Augustine's City of God to the effect that just as ploughshares require a plow, and harp-strings a frame, to support them, the "significant things" of Scripture are attached to a "framework" of words that have no allegorical meaning: the attempt to ...

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