Committee member Enrica Zanin is the author of the book Fiction et vérité : l’éthique du récit de Boccace à Madame de Lafayette (Fiction and Truth: The Ethics of Narrative from Boccaccio to Madame de La Fayette). Published by Droz, the book traces the history of the profound transformation in the relationship between ethics and literature that took place in the interval between Boccaccio’s establishment of the novella and the rise of the novel. Analyzing the evolution of poetics, reading practices, and moral reflection, Fiction et vérité illuminates the historical foundations of the most recent debates on the ethical value of narrative.