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Decameron 57
9. “Avvegna che, chi volesse più propriamente parlare, quello
che io dir debbo non si direbbe beff a anzi si direbbe meríto . . .”
(Decameron, p. 670; italics mine).
10. A recent statement on comedy in terms of identity and
diff erence has been provided by René Girard, “Perilous Balance:
A Comic Hypothesis,” Modern Language Notes, 87 (1972), pp.
811–826. See also C.L. Barber, Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959).
11. Vittore Branca, Boccaccio medievale (Florence: Sansoni, 1956),
pp. 71–99. See also Guido Pugliese, “Decameron, II, 3: un caso di
contingenza causale,” Esperienze letterarie 5 (1980), 4, pp. 29–41.
12. Ireneo Sanesi, La Commedia (Milan: Vallardi, 1935), II, pp. 1–
109. For an updating of the questions of the commedia dell’arte,
see also Roberto Tessari, La Commedia dell’arte nel seicento
(Florence: Olschki, 1969).
13. A history of this utopian motif from antiquity down is provided
by Arthur O. Lovejoy and George Boas, Primitivism and
Related Ideas in Antiquity (New York: Octagon Books, 1973).
14. Th e specifi c virtue of the heliotrope is described by Marbodus,
Liber de gemmis, PL 171, col. 1757; Pliny, Natural History, x,
xxxvii, p. 165. Cf. also Inferno xxiv, 93.
15. Th e link between appearance and identity is featured in VI, 5.
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16. Th e defi nition is given by Garnerius de S. Victore, Gregorianum,
PL 193, col. 396. It is also echoed in Allegoriae in universam
sacram scripturam, PL 112, col. 1062. Th e work, which Migne
attributed to Rabanus Maurus, is now doubtfully attributed to
Garner of Rochefort or Adam Scotus. Cf. also Adam Scotus,
De tripartito tabernacolo, PL 198, col. 746. Th e biblical place
where the tabernacle is alluded to as a prefi guration of the
paradisiac order on earth is Isaiah 32:18 and Haymo’s brilliant
gloss on the verse in Isaiah, PL 116, col. 876. Th e motif of
the feast of the tabernacles is studied with great care by Jean
Danielou, Bible et liturgie (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1958),
pp. 449–469.
17. Th e scene of the Transfi guration is described by Matthew 17:1;
Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28. Th e typological link between the feast
of the tabernacles and the Transfi guration is established by the