Abstract

The «Elegia di madonna Fiammetta» has an evident impact of the story of Leandre and Hero, especially in the moments in which the lady suffers while waiting for her lover, who never comes. Fiammetta makes obvious this parallelism on several occasions, and manages to invent an end for the story loaded of pathos. Joan Roís de Corella realises about this relationship between both two works and makes the inverse path: he uses the tone and some narrative elements of the Elegia for writing his Leander and Hero. It is demonstrated that the so contreversial end of Corella’s story is not original of the Valencian, but it also depends on Boccaccio’s text.

Abstract

Este artículo aborda las similitudes y la competencia entre poetas y juristas que surgieron en la Italia medieval tardía. Tomando como ejemplo la novela X, 4 del Decameron de Boccaccio se mostrará cómo la práctica jurídica y la narración novelística se entrelazan estrechamente, lo que da lugar a una perspectiva profundamente crítica del derecho por parte de la literatura.