Chapter La rappresentazione del lavoro nella letteratura medievale

This study examines how translations and novellas shaped representations of work in medieval literature, particularly in 13th- and 14th-century Tuscany. Translations opened access to everyday commercial life through the lexicons of urban professions, which were often included organically in expositions of the time. The novellas, on the other hand, offered an image of working activity that was effective primarily on the connotative level, as in the case of Boccaccio’s Decameron. Representation...