Daniela D’Eugenio (University of Arkansas) – “The Hopeless Tricked and the Clever Trickster from Boccaccio to Basile”
Zoom WebinarMedieval and Early Modern Italian literary texts include abundant tricks, usually played by clever people on simple-minded victims for amusement or profit. What makes a series of actions a trick? Are tricks only comic or can they cause tragic consequences? How does the interaction between the trickster and the tricked develop throughout the story and …