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Interpretative Method for a Tale by Boccaccio: An Enchanted Pear Tree in Argos ( Decameron VII.9)

of that complex book, I warn them that every detail in each story demands attention: day of the week, colors, numbers, allusions however remote, saints, locations, folk sayings, and so on and on through a universe of references, many of which may seem at first to be simply a stylistic filling out of narrational specificities but which have significance for the meanings of each story. And so, attempting to follow my own advice, I examine each story in its details for its underlying or deeper meaning, its truth as truth is stated in parables. Boccaccio says in the Proem to the book, that his stories are "stories or fables or parables or histories" ["cento novelle, o favole o parobole o istorie"].1 The plots conceal truths that the reader is to uncover. My excavations have led me to discover hidden meanings that were at first concealed by a veil of sheer bravado and entertainment.