IX. «To tell a hundred tales, or
children's stories or parables or stories»

• «To tell a hundred tales, or children's stories or parables or stories»
  
  
• The Decameron
  • A “new” narrative genre: the novella
  • How novellas should be read
  • An uncertain chronology
  • The architecture of Boccaccio’s Centonovelle or Hundred Novellas
  
  
• The paratext
  • Proem
  • Introduction to the IV day; author’s Conclusions
  
  
• The Mise en page of Hamilton’s code
  • The role of capital letters
  • Towards a “dramatisation” of the story
  
  
• The macro-text
  • Literary and iconographic models
  
  
• Ten (or rather eleven) lyrical inserts
  • A worldly poem
  
  
• Actors and narrators in the Decameron: the levels of narrative diegesis
  
  
• The names of the honest brigade