![]() ![]() Chaucer’s preacher appears in the tale preceding Fragment VII of the Canter-bury Tales it is in Fragment VII that poetic language becomes a central theme. Boccaccio gives particular emphasis to the importance of his Cipolla by placing the master preacher in the last tale told on the sixth day of storytelling (the day when wit is the common theme of all ten tales). Boccaccio’s Fra Cipolla appears in Decameron 6.10 and Chaucer’s Pardoner, in Canterbury Tales, VI.287-968 (“The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale”)-according to the order of the tales most widely adopted in modern editions, that of the Ellesmere manuscript (San Marino, California, Huntington Library MS EL. Both Boccaccio, in his Decameron, and Chaucer, in The Canterbury Tales, place sermons deliveredby highly skilled preachers very nearly at the centre of their story collections. ![]()
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