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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