The novella (from Latin novus, “new”) is a specific narrative form of early modern literature that emerged from popular medieval narrative practices to become a genre in its own right, initially in the 14th/15th centuries in Latin Europe (Italy, Spain, France), then in the German lands in the 18th century [6]. The first example is the Novellino (collection of novellas by an unknown Tuscan author, 1280-1300), which was followed by Giovanni Boccaccio’s Il Decamerone (1349–1352), the Cent nouve…