Three Rings in Decameron
Boccaccio wrote his Decameron, a collection of a hundred stories, between 1349 and 1360. On this page, Filomena tells the third novella of the first day in which yet another story is being told (mise en abyme), the one of Melchisedech and the three golden rings.
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Melchisedech and the Three Golden Rings
story by Violette Bandu.In this novella, three identical golden rings are used as a metaphorical storytelling device to communicate a certain specific symbolic meaning within the novella. This being said: why was the ring chosen as an object in this novella and what does it represent? Do the rings being identical have anything to do with it? Let us begin with a few lines from the original text...