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Ciappelletto's Contrition and Canon Law's Drunk Saint (Audivimus [Liber Extra 3.45.1], De penitentia, Decameron 1.1).

This essay proposes two new intertexts from major collections of canon law for the first tale of Boccaccio's Decameron , Ser Ciappelletto's fraudulent confession and subsequent veneration as a saint. In the decretal Audivimus , collected in the Liber Extra (1234), the pope forbids the veneration of...

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Published in:MLN Vol. 141; no. 1; pp. 49 - 62
Main Author: Delmolino, Grace
Format: Article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press Jan2026
Subjects:
Canon law
Decameron (Book : Boccaccio)
Saints
Literary characters
Atonement
Literature
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
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