id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 4j03cz32m06 James C. Kriesel Favole, Parabole, Istorie: The Genealogy of Boccaccio's Theory of Allegory 2008 .txt text/plain 366 16 30 Boccaccio either composed allegorical fictions such as the Ameto, Amorosa visione, or Buccolicum carmen, or he theorized allegory's role in literature's semiotics, for example in his Trattatello on Dante and in the Genealogie deorum gentilium. Traditionally, scholars have considered Boccaccio to be the first Italian realist author, who criticized simplistic notions of God, theology, and medieval allegory. cache/4j03cz32m06.txt txt/4j03cz32m06.txt