Il potere della narrazione e le potenzialità del racconto nell’«Elegia di madonna Fiammetta»

Focusing of Boccaccio’s narrative strategies, this article aims at demonstrating that the author wanted to develop in the «Elegia di madonna Fiammetta» a reflection on the nature of the narration and the role of the narrator. It stresses that this piece of work becomes a concrete and effective representation of the power and the potentialities of both the art of the narration and its narrative products, showing meaningful connections with the poetics which Boccaccio will resort to in the «Decameron».