Padres e hijas: ecos ovidianios en una novella de Boccaccio (Decamerón 5.7)

Nowadays, scholars tend to underestimate the role of ancient authors as plot-providers in Boccaccio’s Decameron. This article shows, through an example, that classical literature does indeed play a role in the literary and narrative materials of Decameron’s intertextual laboratory, not only as an indirect influence, through distant cultural or narrative patterns, but also in effective relationships betweenspecific texts. The classical author is Ovid; the text, Her. 11 (Canace to Macareus), which peeps out through Decameron 5.7