Keywords

• This is a description of a course suitable for a third year high school class
• using the literary genre called the â€
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• novellaâ€
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• to make a comparison between its best known author
• Boccaccio
• and his contemporaries Novellino and Sacchetti. In particular it underlines the complexity of the narrative structure and the cultural and ideological depth of Boccaccio compared to the other two authors. Despite of the brevity of his tales Boccaccio develops the same themes and characters in a deeper and more problematic way