Giovanni Sercambi

Giovanni Sercambi (1348–1424) was an Italian author from Lucca who wrote a history of his city, Le croniche di Luccha, as well as Il novelliere (or Novelle), a collection of 155 tales.

Historical image of Lucca

Sercambi composed Le croniche di Luccha from c. 1368 until his death from plague in 1424.[1]

The unfinished Il novelliere has a frame story based on Boccaccio's Decameron, in which the storytellers flee the Lucca to avoid the plague of 1374.[2] One of the stories, La novella d'Astolfo, is notable for showing parallels with the tale of Shahriyar and Shahzaman in the One Thousand and One Nights.[3]

The eleventh story in Novelle is a variant of Aarne-Thompson-Uther tale type 513A, "Six Go Through the Whole World".[4]

References
  1. Ruthenberg p.70
  2. Vivarelli, Ann W. (1975). "Giovanni Sercambi's Novelle and the Legacy of Boccaccio". MLN. 90 (1): 109–127. doi:10.2307/2907204. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  3. Irwin p.98
  4. Uther, Hans-Jorg (2004). The Types on International Folktales. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. p. 299.

Sources
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  • Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg "Telling Lies, Telling Lives: Giovanni Sercambi Between Cronaca and Novella" in The Italian Novella, ed. Gloria Allaire (Western Michigan University Press, 2003)
  • Robert Irwin The Arabian Nights: A Companion (Tauris Parkes Paperbacks, 2005)
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