Lecture by Prof. Fabrizio Franceschini
On the occasion of the XIII Week of Italian Language in the World
On the occasion of the VII centenary of the birth of Giovanni Boccaccio, Prof. Fabrizio Franceschini will present, from a historical-geographical point of view, twelve novels of the Decameron place in the Mediterranean environment, four in an East made up essentially of Greek islands, seven which favour the space between Italy, Sicily, North Africa and the Iberan area and one, that of Alatiel, which touches every corner of the Mediterranean.
Furthermore, from a historical-cultural point of view, Boccaccio’s viewpoint of the terms and comparisons with which values and non-values by which the Christian, the Arab-Muslim and the Jewish worlds confront with each other will be examined.
Fabrizio Franceschini obtained his formation at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and is currently Full Professore of Italian Linguistics at the University of Pisa. He has published studies on Dante’s Divine Comedy and its old commentators, the problems of administrative Italian, the language of professionals and the language of youths.