Animal figures in Franco Sacchetti : The animal world has a rather dense presence in Franco Sacchetti and we continually identify it in the most are capable of texts and contexts of his literary production. The zoological material and the typology of animals in Franco Sacchetti’s works obviously adapt to the literary genre used and to the theme he has treated. The poems, the Sposizioni and above all the masterpiece, the Trecentonovelle, align some diperent animal figures in various literary, extra-literary and linguistic contexts: currently they are appearing as the main axis of the narrative, now as a rhetorical figure or stylistic, iconographic, proverbial element ecc. The paper focuses on some symptomatic cases through the figure of animals like the crow, the peacock, the lion, the donkey, the lamb or the marmoset. Although plenty of others (dogs, horses, donkeys, pigs, capons, oxen …) are aligned to characterize the human species in Franco Sacchetti’s political-moral vision. In the work of the Fourteenth-century author, the symbolism of animals has a less obvious or direct significance and is presented above all in relation to the political, social and moral issues in which animals play their centuries-old function by representing social hierarchies or political allusions. - [Abstract]

Language: Italian