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Giovanni Boccaccio
(1976), pp. 323–344: Millicent J. Marcus, An Allegory of Form:
Literary Self-Consciousness in the Decameron (Saratoga, Calif:
Anma Libri, 1979), pp. 27–43; Karl-Ludwig Selig, “Boccaccio’s
Decamerone and Th e Subversion of Literary Reality (Dec. ii /
5),” Italien und die Romania in Humanismus und Renaissance,
eds. K.W. Hemper and E. Straub (Weisbaden: Steiner, 1983),
pp. 265–269. More generally on the motif of circularity, see
Teodolinda Barolini, “Th e Wheel of the Decameron,” Romance
Philology, 36 (1983), pp. 521–538.
42. Pierre Courcelle, Les Confessions de Saint Augustin dans la
tradition littéraire (Paris: Etudes Augustiniennes, 1963),
especially pp. 278–288 and pp. 623–640, where Courcelle gives
abundant evidence for the occurrence of the topos. See also F.
Chatillon, “Regio dissimilitudinis,” in Mélanges E. Podechard
(Lyon: Facultés Catholiques, 1945), pp. 85–102. Th e notion that
the fallen world governed by Fortune is a regio dissimilitudinis is
implied by Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, ii, m. 3, 13–18.
43. Th e classical text for these temptations is 1 John 2:16 which
urges man to give up “concupiscentia carnis, concupiscentia
oculi et superbia vitae.” In patristic exegesis the three sins are
variously interpreted as gluttony, sexual pleasures, pursuit of
riches and vainglory. For a literary application of the motif to
the medieval English literature see Donald R. Howard, Th e Th ree
Temptations: Medieval Man in Search of the World (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1966).
44. Th is is a standard defi nition of allegory as “alieniloqui. Aliud
enim sonat, et aliud intelligitur” (Isidore, Etym., I, xxxvii, 22).
45. Boethius’ text reads: “Th us doth she play, to make her power
more known, / Showing her slaves a marvel, when man’s state
/ Is in one hour both downcast and fortunate” (Th e Consolation
of Philosophy, trans. H.F. Steward [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1968], ii, m. 1, p. 179.)
46. Giuseppe Mazzotta, “Th e Canzoniere and the Language of the
Self,” Studies in Philology, 75 (1978), pp. 271–296.