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only episode resembles to the _Satirae_ of Petronius. At least two
histories of this type will be found in the existing fragments of the novel
of Petronius. One of them are reported as a notorious history at the poet
Eumolpus, and the other one is said from him as a personal experience. More than
a dozen of them is imbedded in the novel of Apuleius, the
_Metamorphoses_, and modern champions of them will be seen in Boccaccio
and in Chaucer. In fact they has been being popular down for the twelfth century to
the eighteenth one. You crave in front of the duration of Petronius that you/they sporadically happen them
in literature. A good champion, is found for example in a letter
commonly attributed to AEschines in the fourth century A.C. As I lend as
the first century before Christ harvests of them had been made and
translated in the Latin. This development suggests an interesting possible
origin of the realistic novel. In such harvests as those alone
mentioned of the first century A.C., the central figures were different in
the different histories, as it is the case, for example, in the Canterbury
Histories. Such original writer as Petronius was you/he/she has been able to think well of
connecting these different episodes fabbricandoloro the experiences of a
only individual. The Encolpiuses of Petronius are able in that case both in a
way an ancient Don Juan. If we compare the Arabic nights with one of the
groups of histories found in the Novels of the Round Table, we can see
thing this direct footstep would mean. The histories of which you/they bear the title the
Arabic nights all have the same general setting and the same general
treatment, and they has put in the mouth of the same history-cashier. The
Lancelot gathers of histories of Table Rotundas, however the shows a more approach next to
unity since the histories in him pertains to the same person, and it has a ground of common ownership
last purpose, even if it is vague. When to this point you/he/she had been come
the realistic novel would have made its aspect. We have been