Abstract: The present article analyses an episode contained in branch XVII of the Roman de Renart in which the fox and the wolf, whose antagonism is central to the whole narrative cycle, oppose each other in a game of chess. The wolf unexpectedly prevails over the fox, then celebrates his victory by nailing his opponent’s testicles to the chessboard. In this episode, the reversal of expectations and narrative conventions is particularly striking and highlights important evolutions in the Reynardian tradition
ANDRÉ JACQUES (a cura di), (1986), Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiae XII. Isidore de Séville, Etymologies, livre 12, Des animaux, Paris, Les Belles Lettres
BIANCIOTTO GABRIEL (a cura di) (2005), Le Roman de Renart. Texte établi par Naoyuki Fukumoto, Noboru Harano e Satoru Suzuki, révu, présenté et traduit par G. Bianciotto, Paris, Librairie Génèrale Française
BONAFIN MASSIMO (a cura di), (1998), Il romanzo di Renart la volpe, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso
BONAFIN MASSIMO (2001), Les joyeuses funérailles de Renart, “Reinardus”, 14, 89-98
CAVAGNA MATTIA (2015), Les Enfances Louis, le Charlemagne furieux ou la Chanson de la reine Sebile : notes sur la biographie poétique de Charlemagne à partir d’un fragment épique conservé à Bruxelles, “Vox Romanica”, 74, 99-123
DONÀ CARLO (1997), Il Racconto, in La letteratura francese medievale, a cura di M. Mancini, Bologna, Il Mulino, 271-344
DUFOURNET, JEAN (1985) (a cura di), Le Roman de Renart, Paris, Flammarion
KOOPMANS JELLE e VERHUYCK PAUL (1987), Sermon joyeux et truanderie (Villon, Nemo, Ulespiègle),
Amsterdam, Rodopi
MEHL JEAN-MICHEL (1986), Autour de Jacques de Cessoles et du jeu d’échecs, in Des jeux et des hommes
dans la société médiévale, Paris, Champion, 91-162.
O’SULLIVAN DANIEL E. (a cura di) (2012), Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: A Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World, Boston – Berlin, De Gruyter
STRUBEL ARMAND (a cura di), (1998), Le roman de Renart, Paris, Gallimard
ZINK MICHEL (a cura di), (2005), Rutebeuf, Œuvres complètes, Paris, Librairie Générale Française
