Confessione e Redenzione: L’esemplarità Parodica di Ser Ciappelletto e Lazarillo de Tormes

Abstract

This paper proposes a comparison of the common aspects of parodic confession in Lazarillo de Tormes (anonymous author) and the novel of Ser Ciappelletto, the first of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. The analysis starts by the carnivalization process of society that happens by the speech of the two protagonists. The parodic confession determines the rupture of the social pathos through the reinvention of their own history that reverses their position of anti-heroes and makes them appear as good men, apparently adapted to the moral religious and political structure fo the represented world