Per quelli che parlano spagnolo, TELEFONICA ha pubblicato un’interessante libro sull’etica multiculturale e la società della rete, scritto da Luis German Rodriguez L. e Miguel Angel Perez Alvarez con alcuni frammenti scritti dal Dott. Pablo Liendo-Chapellin.

In particolare troverete un interessante capitolo sul potenziale delle teconologie emergenti da un punto di vista etico e medico (pag. 115 ndr).

 
In attesa di ottenere i permessi per la traduzione e divulgazione, la redazione PressCenter vi consiglia di leggere in lingua originale il libro
(scaricabile in PDF) dal sito di Telefonica.

http://www.fundaciontelefonica.com/arte_cultura/publicaciones-listado/pagina-item-publicaciones/?itempubli=305

The culturally subversive content of Boccaccio’s Decameron continues to unnerve and divide scholars. What would inspire, in the middle of the 13th century, a work so marvelously anomalous, groundbreaking and alive? What would cause it to spread into an area in which religious forces continued to convey and control the ideas of authors such as Petrarch; indicating that the fourteenth century willed predominately to identify itself as a journey filled with tension regarding the renewal of Christianity and the attacks of Catholics who would eventually participate in the Scisma[1]?

Patrizia de Santis

The cultural and not ideological flaws, from which this identity derived, are revealed in the Decameron. The liberating and vital spirit that fill its’ pages appear almost heretical compared to the works of its contemporaries; and the Decameron has played against this since the time of its publication, as the fame immediately achieved by the work made Boccaccio an affirmed name. What did Boccaccio do then? He included an encrypted message in his 100th Novella through the creation of his character Griselda, one of the works’ most anomalous characters.

Griselda endures all of the abuse and insults, which a destiny of unhappy marriage reserved for her, by the hand of her cruel husband with humility. When the reader meets this character he does not perceive her to be a “Boccaccian” woman.

The reader who is aware of the correspondence between Boccaccio and Petrarch often asks why Boccaccio seems to be seeking through his Griselda a type of validation of the Decameron; a validation that would grant a pre-absolution from the severe judgment that that Church could have given his work.

Astral map

In her book, Boccaccio, L’Enigma della Centesima Novella, Patrizia de Santis attempts to answer these difficult questions. She reveals that Griselda, the most mild and resigned Character of the Decameron is actually an allegory meant to be interpreted in the exact opposite manner. According to de Santis, this is revealed through a series of hints and references which Boccaccio in a hidden but profound manner, spread throughout his Novella. These same references contain a message that might refer to the brotherhood of Girolami, which Boccaccio may have belonged to, (as was speculated by the scholar Renzo Moretti in 2005) having been appointed in 1334 to prevent the loss of the knowledge acquired by the order before their suppression twenty-two years beforehand. These theories are confirmed by a cycle of alfresco, related to the novella, in a Northern Italian castle. Twenty four paintings contain a map of the stars which serve to preserve the symbolic value of Griselda as an icon, according to de Santis, of the Graal; which would allude to the name chosen for her.

[1] Scisma- Italian word referring to a movement in the earlier centuries of the church by Catholics who due to a difference in opinion of the Catholic doctrine, broke away from the church to form their own religious communities.

By Giovanni d’Alessandro

Source: Il Centro

La scrittrice Patrizia de Santis, nel suo libro ‘Boccaccio. L’enigma della centesima novella’ (Armando Curcio Editore), svela come Griselda, la donna più mite creata dal Boccaccio, sia in realtà un’allegoria.

ll contenuto culturalmente eversivo del Decameron di Boccaccio continua a inquietare
e dividere gli studiosi. Cosa ispira, a metà del 1300, un’ opera così meravigliosamente
anomala, dirompente, viva? Cosa la fa germinare in un terreno dove le pulsioni religiose continuano a convogliare e irreggimentare il pensiero di autori come Petrarca, per indicare il riferimento in cui, prioritariamente, vorrà identificare se stesso il XIV secolo, percorso da tensioni di rinnovamento della cristianità, e da prescismatici attacchi alla Chiesa?

Patrizia de Santis

Del Decameron è stato individuato il solco culturale da cui proviene (la tradizione novellistica d’Oltralpe), non quello ideologico. Lo spirito vitalistico e libertario che lo percorre pare quasi eretico ai contemporanei e contro di esso giocano, sin dalla sua pubblicazione, tanto il nome già affermato di Boccaccio, quanto lafama che presto arride all’opera. Che fa allora Boccaccio? Include un cripto messaggio nella centesima novella, che ha come protagonista Griselda, uno dei personaggi più anomali dell’opera, la quale subisce con umiltà ogni sorta d’affronto e d’angheria da parte del suo crudele marito, cui un destino d’infelicità coniugale l’ha consegnata. Quando incontra questa figura femminile, il lettore percepisce che non è una donna… boccaccesca; e chi conosce la corrispondenza tra l’Autore e Petrarca si domanda perché, in quest’ ultimo, Boccaccio cercasse, additando la sua Griselda, una sorta di avallo del Decameron, e tramite lui una pre-assoluzione da parte della severa valutazione che dell’opera avrebbe potuto fare la Chiesa.

Mappa stellare

A questi non facili interrogativi prova a dare una risposta il libro di Patrizia de Santis Boccaccio, L’enigma della centesima novella , rilevando come Griselda, la donna più mite e rassegnata del Decameron, sia in realtà un’allegoria che vada letta in chiave opposta, attraverso una serie d’indizi e di rimandi di cui Boccacio avrebbe, nascostamente ma copiosamente, disseminato la novella: la quale conterrebbe un messaggio iniziatico, forse riferibile alla confraternita dei girolamini cui l’Autore appartenne, ordine – come proposto dallo studioso Renzo Manetti nel 2005 – incaricato dal 1334 di non disperdere la sapienza templare, dopo la soppressione dell’ordine avvenuta 22 anni prima. Lo confermerebbe un ciclo di affreschi, collegati alla novella, in un castello nell’Italia del Nord, contenente, in 24 quadri, altrettanti simboli d’una mappa stellare, per tramandare la valenza simbolica di Griselda, icona – scrive de Santis – del Graal, cui alluderebbe lo stesso nome scelto per lei.

di Giovanni d’Alessandro

fonte: Il Centro

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