| Abstract |
Denise Amato , Le tradizioni orali e popolari nella letteratura dei secc. XI-XIII. Il motivo dello “sciocco-furbo”
Oral and folk traditions in the literature of the 11th-13th centuries. The motif of the “foolish-cunning” person
Oral and folk traditions had a sure and constant influence on medieval literature, both in Latin and in vulgar. After an introductory discussion of the problem, the paper focuses on a widespread traditional and narrative motif: the motif of the “foolish cunning” person (the trickster) that, in the literature of the 11th-13th centuries, appears in Middle Latin texts like Versus de Unibove, De clericis et rustico, Dialogus Salomonis et Marcholfi, and, above all, in Trubert by Douin de Lavesne, a little comic poem of the 13th century that to some extent represents a summa of all the peculiar themes of the motif of the trickster.
Key words: Folk traditions; Oral Traditions; Trickster.
Denise Amato (Palermo 1980) si è laureata in Beni Demo-Etno-Antropologici presso la Facoltà di Lettere dell’Università degli Studi di Palermo con una tesi su Lo “sciocco-furbo” in alcuni testi medievali dei secc. XI-XIII. Si occupa dell’influsso esercitato dalle tradizioni orali e popolari sulla letteratura medievale.