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The tales are written in very incisive short prose. There are a few dialogues and their style is various because it depends on the character who is speaking. There are all the social classes because they represent life and so there are gentlemen, low classes and regal characters.
The tales include songs and amorous epistles, in the fashion of the time. There are allusions to religious problems and to classical culture with final metamorphoses of the characters to symbolize the triumph of Good or of Evil. Aurelia is full of symbolism. Patriotism and Araldic problems.
It’s important for the consideration of the Italian Renaissance culture. It reflects what on aristocratic young man of the period could learn travelling to Italy.
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