Poussières de mondes, éclats d’enfers Poétique de la fragmentation chez Anton Francesco Doni

The notion of the “fragment” is not to be found in the work of Anton Francesco Doni (1513-1574), the principal author of Italian fiction of the Cinquecento. However, [his] work reveals a deliberate, systematic, fragmentary practice, which conceives of itself in terms of a work written in “morsels”, at once unseen and part of the prolonging of a particular mode of Renaissance.