Ricerc@Sapienza

he project is aimed at setting up, launching and initially carrying out research activities to lay an in-depth study of the sources of Matteo Bandello's tales. The attention of the research group coordinated by the principal investigator will be focused, above all, on the study of the presence of Boccaccio's Decameron in Bandello's narrative work: so far, the relationship that Bandello establishes with Boccaccio has been investigated in a non-systematic manner. The final objectives of the research are twofold: 1. the production, by the proposer, of a new annotated anthology of Matteo Bandello's Novelle; 2. the writing, by the proposer, of a recapitulatory monograph on Matteo Bandello's narrative work, also conceived as a didactic tool for students of Italian Studies. The research will move along three main lines: 1. the mapping and critical examination of the explicit and implicit quotations of the Decameron and other literary works by Boccaccio in Matteo Bandello's 214 tales; 2. the analysis of the sources common to the two authors: texts from the classical tradition, chronicles, exempla; 3. the study of the dialogue that Bandello establishes with Boccaccio in order to carry out his own reflection on literature (e.g. with regard to the choice of subjects worthy of literary reworking, the relationship with ancient sources, the development of a literary language appropriate to the subject matter). Two steps of corroboration of the expected results are planned: an intermediate one and a conclusive one. The first will consist of a one-day Workshop organised in collaboration with the Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio, an external partner of the project. The second, at the conclusion of the research, will consist of a conference hosted at Sapienza University and held in collaboration with the Centro Interdisciplinare Linceo Giovani, of which the proposer is a member. The contributions of the speakers of this meeting will be collected in an Open Access volume.