著者

米山 喜晟 Yoshiaki YONEYAMA 桃山学院大学文学部

出版者

桃山学院大学総合研究所

雑誌

国際文化論集 = INTERCULTURAL STUDIES (ISSN:09170219)

巻号頁・発行日

no.25, pp.21-48, 2001-12-20

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In the 16th century the epicenter of the Italian Novella removed to Veneto from Toscana. But the writers born in Venice were not so many, and S. Erizzo (1525-85) was one of the most important writers among them. He belonged to the Venetian aristocracy and experienced some important goverment posts. He used a frame to bind his works as Boccaccio, but the frame he used (consisted with six students-tellers) was more simple and monotonous. Among the total 36 works, 19 works were told on the stages of the ancient world, especially 14 works (39%) of in the ancient Greek world. The places of the stage were very various (from Peru and England to Persia), but Greece (11+2) and Italy (7+2) occupied 61,11% of all. The 80.35% of the main characters belonged to the noble class, and this percentage is ecceptionally high among the Italian Novella. Erizzo got hints for his 22 works (61,11%) from the works of Valerius Maximus (by the translation of Giogio Dati), but the works of Valerius themselves were too fragmental and brief, therefore most of his cases, he got only suggestions not so important to narrate his own tales which he believed appropriate to educate the morality of the noble young men of Venice.