Luigi Alamanni, Novella

The work provides the first critical edition of the only novella written by Luigi Alamanni (1495-1556). The novella is given a new title and the decameronian preface which framed it during the nineteenth century has been erased. After a brief introduction, which deals on one hand with the dating problem and on the other with the possibility of identifying the protagoni- sts of the novella with historical characters, the note to the text, a new critical text, the display of variants, and the commentary are found.