"Fingendo un certo suo sogno". Oniromanzie burlesche nelle Cene del Lasca

Abstract

The present essay aims to explore the influence of oneiric imagination in Lasca’s Cene – an original reinvention of the Decameron – and in various poems by the Florentine author, whose visionary reverie draws force from the polysemous wealth of the dream world. Comparing Lasca's texts and tales from the Decameron, without forgetting influences stemming from Dante and Petrarch, it delves into the Sixteenth-century rewriting of dreams, as well as the evolution of their interpretation – often employed satirically – to the backdrop of varying Renaissance philosophies.