The chronicler related this story (a typical medieval allegory) as follows:

Calandrino is a character from Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval allegory, the Decameron, in which he appears in four stories.

The tradition of medieval allegory began in part with the interpretation of the Song of Songs in the Bible.

These phases are based on the four levels of medieval allegory (the first two phases constituting the first level).

The anagogic level of medieval allegory treated a text as expressing the highest spiritual meaning.

With a thoroughness that authors of medieval allegories would appreciate, they elaborate the analogy, house with movie.

The goal on each of these three planes is unity, and, appropriately, the novel takes as its framework the multi-layered but harmonious structure of medieval allegory.

As in medieval allegory, multiple layers of meaning correspond to the novel's multiple languages.

With the help of these models he succeeded in burying a real mound made of human bones under medieval allegories.

This violent thoroughfare, with its fumes, speed and bandits at the traffic lights, is like a medieval allegory of the pathway to hell.