Il Decameron e la letteratura d'Oriente: confronti e scambi

The work is divided into four chapters in which the candidate seeks to establish the intertextual relationships between Sindbad , a book of an eastern origin, and the Disciplina Clericalis on one side, and the Decameron on the other. 1- In the first chapter the candidate has dealt with the origin and dissemination of the book of Sindbad and Disciplina Clericalis. The book of Sindbad is of undoubted oriental origin. Its spreads in the Orient and then in the West . Arrives in Italy in the twelfth century . The other book is Peter Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis, an oriental origin book. This book had had a fundamental importance in the transmission of oriental narrative into the West. 2- In the second chapter, the candidate has done an accurate research about Boccaccio's vision on the Orient, the Arab-Islamic world in particular. 3- In the third chapter, the candidate compares the narrative structure of Sindbad with that of the Decameron. In the final part of the chapter, the candidate questions the terminology which is defined as the narrative structure, that is, the so-called frame. He gave a new terminology to the structure. 4- In the fourth chapter, the candidate tries to track down the sources of some decameronian short stories. The sources are divided into two parts: written and oral. In the first part, the candidate compares some stories of the Decameron with tales from Disciplina Clericalis and The Seven Sages of Rome. The second part studies the oral sources of other decameronian stories with its roots in the Eastern tradition, especially the Arab-Islamic. The first story are: (I, 5), (V, 9), (VIII, 2), and (X, 3).