Boccaccio y Cervantes : posibles fuentes italianas de La cueva de Salamanca

From considering the Decameron a narrative archetype, I suggest setting up the boundaries of a corpus of accounts about the use of magics in the marriage mockery in order to focus on motives, characters, types, composition techniques and expressive resources which, from the book written by Boccaccio, the narrative and the drama of the Renaissance spread in our literature. The purpose of this is to reopen once again the theme of the Italian sources in the entremés La cueva de Salamanca in order to better improve —even from possible Italian models—, the deep innovation of the Cervantes’ text and the ideological background behind it.