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The Renaissance Novella as Justice*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ullrich Langer
Ullrich Langer*
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Abstract

This essay examines short narrative (the Decameron, the Heptameion, the histoire tragique, and Till Eulenspiegel) as reflections of different models of justice within the Aristotelian-Ciceronian tradition. The exchanges among characters, and the conclusion of these exchanges, are patterned in ways that provide justice without requiring the virtuousness of any one character. The link between short narrative and justice illuminates the more general relationship between literature and more language in the Renaissance.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , Summer 1999 , pp. 311 - 341
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1999

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Footnotes

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This essay is part of a book-length project on moral philosophy and literature in the Renaissance, Vertu du discours, discours de la vertu: Litttrature etphilosophic morale au XVIe siecle en France. Various colleagues have given me useful suggestions on this essay; I wish to thank in particular Richard A. Carr, Francis Goyet, Jan Miernowski, and an anonymous reviewer for their careful remarks.

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