Losing your head : abjection, aesthetic conflict, and psychoanalytic criticism by Civitarese, Giuseppe, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Introduction -- Toward a (New) Psychoanalytic Criticism -- Abjection and Aesthetic Conflict in Boccaccio's (L)Isabetta -- Changing Styles, Affective Continuities, and Psychic Containers -- Do Cyborgs Dream? …”
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The figure of the nymph in early modern culture

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture; Part 1 Nymphs between the Visual Arts and Literature; Chapter 2 Pleasures of the Imagination: Narrating the Nymph, from Boccaccio to Lope De Vega; Chapter 3 Salmacis, Hermaphrodite, and the Inversion of Gender: Allegorical Interpretations and Pictorial Representations of an Ovidian Myth, ca. 1300-1770; Chapter 4 The Sleeping Nymph Revisited: Ekphrasis, Genius Loci and Silence.…”
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Literary Meditations for Pandemic Times by Peone, Dustin

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction: Looking Backward from a Pandemic -- CHAPTER I: Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War -- CHAPTER II: Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron -- CHAPTER III: Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolò Machiavelli, An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague -- CHAPTER IV: François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel -- CHAPTER V: Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year -- CHAPTER VI: Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed -- CHAPTER VII: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice -- CHAPTER VIII: Albert Camus, The Plague -- CHAPTER IX: Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal…”
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The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales. by Spencer, Elizabeth

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Medieval mythography. Volume 3, The emergence of Italian humanism, 1321-1475 by Chance, Jane, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations and citation editions -- Chronology of medieval mythographers and commentary authors -- Introduction -- Toward a subjective mythography : allegorical figurae and authorial self-projection -- Dante's self-mythography : the inverted Ovid "commentary" of the Commedia (1321) and its family glosses -- "Iohannes de Certaldo" : self-validation in Boccaccio's "Genealogies of the gods" (ca. 1350-75) -- Franco-Italian Christine de Pizan's Epistre othea (1399-1401) : a feminized commentary on Ovid -- Coluccio Salutati's Hercules as Vir perfectus : justifying Seneca's Hercules furens in de Laboribus Herculis (1378?…”
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Franz von Suppé : overtures and preludes by Suppé, Franz von, 1819-1895

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; 1) einmorgen, ein mittag, ein nacht in wien; 2) deswanderers ziel; 3) dichter und bauer; 4) die irrfahrt um's glück; 5) paragraph 3; 6) das pensionat; 7) pique dame; 8) zehn madchen und kein mann; 9) flotte bursche; 10) die schöne galathea; 11) leichte cavallerie; 12) banditenstreiche; 13) die fraumeisterin; 14) isabella; 15) fatinitza; 16) der teufel auf erden; 17) boccaccio; 18) donna juanita; 19) die afrikareise; 20) desmatrosen heimkehr; 21) die jagd nach dem glück; 22) dasmodell.…”
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Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry. by Seyed-Gohrab, Ali Asghar

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Introduction: Persian Rhetorical Figures; Nasir al-Din Tusi and Poetic Imagination in the Arabic and Persian Philosophical Tradition; Kashifi's Powerful Metaphor: The Energising Trope; Waxing Eloquent: The Masterful Variations on Candle Metaphors in the Poetry of Hafiz and his Predecessors; Love and the Metaphors of Wine and Drunkenness in Persian Sufi Poetry; One Chaste Muslim Maiden and a Persian in a Pear Tree: Analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in Four Earlier Arabic and Persian Tales; Translating Persian Metaphors into English.…”
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Chaucer and Italian culture

Table of Contents: “…The Haunting of Geoffrey Chaucer: Dante, Boccaccio and the Ghostly Poetics of the Trecento -- 3. …”
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The Short Story : the Reality of Artifice. by May, Charles E.

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Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. by Barolini, Teodolinda

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Kissing the wild woman : art, beauty, and the reformation of the Italian prose romance in Giulia Bigolina's Urania by Nissen, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…1 The Reformation of the Prose Romance ; Bigolina's Cultural Formation ; Elements of the Prose Romance ; The Plot and Characters of Urania ; The Prose Romance According to Boccaccio ; Urania in Its Literary Context ; Bigolina's Defense of Women -- 2 Writing a Portrait ; Bigolina and Aretino ; Portraiture in Urania ; The Caricature of Titian ; Of Mirrors, Istoria and Women in the Arts -- 3 Ekphrasis and the Paragone ; Ekphrasis in Western Literature ; Bigolina and the Paragone ; The Judgment of Paris ; Descriptio Mulieris ; Bigolina's Two Venuses ; The Book as Object -- 4 The Sight of the Beautiful ; Beauty and the Senses in Urania ; Sight in the Doctrines of Love ; The Body, the Gaze, and the Arts ; The Woman's Portrait as Gift -- 5 Kissing the Wild Woman ; Wildness in Urania ; Urania's (Nearly) Mad Flight ; Femina Salvatica ; The Game of the Senses.…”
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Kissing the wild woman : art, beauty, and the reformation of the Italian prose romance in Giulia Bigolina's Urania by Nissen, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…1 The Reformation of the Prose Romance ; Bigolina's Cultural Formation ; Elements of the Prose Romance ; The Plot and Characters of Urania ; The Prose Romance According to Boccaccio ; Urania in Its Literary Context ; Bigolina's Defense of Women -- 2 Writing a Portrait ; Bigolina and Aretino ; Portraiture in Urania ; The Caricature of Titian ; Of Mirrors, Istoria and Women in the Arts -- 3 Ekphrasis and the Paragone ; Ekphrasis in Western Literature ; Bigolina and the Paragone ; The Judgment of Paris ; Descriptio Mulieris ; Bigolina's Two Venuses ; The Book as Object -- 4 The Sight of the Beautiful ; Beauty and the Senses in Urania ; Sight in the Doctrines of Love ; The Body, the Gaze, and the Arts ; The Woman's Portrait as Gift -- 5 Kissing the Wild Woman ; Wildness in Urania ; Urania's (Nearly) Mad Flight ; Femina Salvatica ; The Game of the Senses.…”
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The Classical Tradition : Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature. by Highet, Gilbert

Table of Contents: “…TOWARDS THE RENAISSANCE: PETRARCH, BOCCACCIO, CHAUCER; CHAPTER 6. THE RENAISSANCE: TRANSLATION; CHAPTER 7. …”
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History of Linguistics in Spain/Historia de la Lingüística en España. Volume II.

Table of Contents: “…Castillian proverbs as stylistic equivalents of Bembo's Boccaccio and Petrarch; 9. Castiglione and Valdés; 10. …”
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The Notion of tolerance and human rights : essays in honour of Raymond Klibansky

Table of Contents: “…Bracken -- John Locke: Toleration and the Civic Virtues / Désiré Park Les fondements de la tolérance universelle chez Bayle: la séparation de l'Église et l'État / Mickl Paradis -- A Note on Boccaccio, Lessing and the Parable of the Three Rings / Pamela D. …”
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Virgin whore by Solberg, Emma Maggie

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Chaucer : a Select Bibliography. by Leyerle, John

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Abbreviations -- Authors' Preface -- I: Materials for the Study of Chaucer's Works (M) -- Bibliographies -- COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF WORKS ON CHAUCER -- ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- HANDBOOKS -- INDICES -- Texts and Canon of Chaucer's Works -- FACSIMILES -- EDITIONS -- TEXTUAL STUDIES -- CANON AND DATING -- WORKS FORMERLY ATTRIBUTED TO CHAUCER -- Texts -- Spurious Canterbury Tales -- Studies -- LOST WORKS -- Language and Versification -- MIDDLE ENGLISH -- CHAUCER'S LANGUAGE AND VERSIFICATION -- Life-Records -- EDITIONS OF DOCUMENTS -- BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES -- Chaucer's Sources and Influences -- STUDIES OF SOURCES AND INFLUENCES IN MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE -- ENGLISH SOURCES AND INFLUENCES -- General Studies -- Gower, John -- FRENCH SOURCES AND INFLUENCES -- General Studies -- Beauveau, Seneschal of Anjou -- Benoit de Sainte-More -- Deschamps, Eustache -- Fabliaux -- Froissart, Jean -- Granson, Oton de -- Guillaume de Deguilleville -- Guillaume de Lorris -- Guillaume de Machaut -- Jean de Meun -- Marie de France -- Nicole de Margival -- Renaud de Louhans -- Roman de la Rose -- Roman de Renart -- Trivet, Nicholas -- ITALIAN SOURCES AND INFLUENCES -- General Studies -- Boccaccio, Giovanni -- Dante Alighieri -- Petrarca, Francesco -- Sercambi, Giovanni -- LATIN SOURCES AND INFLUENCES -- General Studies -- Alanus de Insulis -- Albertano da Brescia -- Albertus Magnus -- Augustinus, Aurelius -- Bernard Silvestris -- The Bible and the Liturgy -- Bersuire, Pierre -- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus -- 'Cato' -- Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Claudianus, Claudius -- Colonne, Guido delle -- Dares Phrygius -- Dictys Cretensis -- Florilegia and School Readers -- Guilielmus Peraldus -- Guillaume de Conches -- Hieronymus, Saint [Jerome] -- Holkot, Robertus -- Horatius Flaccus, Quintus.…”
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Allegory and the Poetic Self First-Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature. by Palmer, R. Barton

Table of Contents: “…Dueling Models of Desire: Ovid and Boethius in the Rose and the Dit Amoureux -- 11. Boccaccio's Amorosa Visione: The Search for Wholeness in the Spirit of Erotic Pleasure -- 12. …”
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Before Enlightenment Play and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism. by Kircher, Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Chapter 1 The Riddles of Renaissance Humanism -- 1 Renaissance Humanism in the History of Early Modern Ideas -- 2 Finders and Seekers in Renaissance Humanism -- 3 Renaissance Humanism in the History of Philosophy -- 4 Literary Modalities of Humanist Expression and Overview of Chapters -- Chapter 2 Esse et videri: To Be and to Seem (Knowledge) -- 1 Piccolomini's Dream -- 2 Quattrocento Hypocrisy: The Play of Appearances -- 3 Trecento Antecedents: Appearing and Seeming in Petrarch and Boccaccio…”
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The medieval heart by Webb, Heather, 1976-

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The medieval heart by Webb, Heather, 1976-

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Elizabethan Translation and Literary Culture. by Schmidt, Gabriela

Table of Contents: “…"Ex rebus ipsis non solum ex libris": Translating the Arts and Sciences in Elizabethan EnglandPart II: Translation and Literary Practice; The Province of Verse: Sir Thomas More's Twelve Rules of John Picus Earle of Mirandula; Translation, Authorship, and Gender: The Case of Jane Seager's Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills; Travelling Translations: Classical Literature in Mid-Sixteenth-Century England; Appropriating France in Elizabethan Drama: English Translations of Robert Garnier's Plays; The Framing of Fiammetta: Gender, Authorship, and Voice in an Elizabethan Translation of Boccaccio.…”
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Translation, humour and literature

Table of Contents: “…Rewriting the French Tradition: Boccaccio and the Making of the Novella.…”
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Renaissance Cultural Crossroads : Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640

Table of Contents: “…Edwards -- Reading Juan de Flores's Grisel y Mirabella in early modern England / Joyce Boro -- Learning style from the Spaniards in sixteenth-century England / Barry Taylor -- Print, paratext, and a seventeenth century sammelband : Boccaccio's Ninfale Fiesolano in English translation / Guyda Armstrong -- Versifying philosophy : Thomas Blundeville's Plutarch / Robert Cummings -- War, what is it good for? …”
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Interpretation and allegory : antiquity to the modern period

Table of Contents: “…Minnis -- Present perspectives : the late Middle Ages to the modern period / Jon Whitman -- Allegory and divine names in ecstatic Kabbalah / Moshe Idel -- Boccaccio : the mythographer of the city / Giuseppe F. …”
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Visual Translation : Illuminated Manuscripts and the First French Humanists by Hedeman, Anne D., 1952-

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Fairy tales framed : early forewords, afterwords, and critical words

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to fairy tales -- Giovanni Boccaccio, The genealogy of the pagan gods (begun circa 1350) -- The literary fairy tale in Italy -- Giovan Francesco Straparola, The pleasant nights (1551,1553) -- Andrea Calmo, "Letter to Signora Frondosa" (1556) -- Girolamo Bargagli, Dialogue on games that are played during the Sienese Veglie (1572, written 1563) -- Giambattista Basile, The tale of tales (dedication for day 1, 1634) -- Girolamo Brusoni, The glories of the incogniti, or the illustrious men of the academy of the "unknown gentlemen" (1647) -- Pompeo Sarnelli, foreword to Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone (1674) and foreword to An outing to Posillipo (1684) -- Bartolomeo Lupardi, "Dedicatory letter to Signor Giuseppo Spada" (1679) -- Maddalena and Teresa Manfredi, and Teresa and Angiola Zanotti, The gossip on the chair (1742) -- Ferdinando Galiani, On the Neapolitan dialect (1779) -- Luigi Serio, The fart : response to on the Neapolitan dialect (1780) -- Fairy tales and fairyland fictions in France -- Charles Perrault, Griselda, Novella, with the tale of donkeyskin and that of the ridiculous wishes, fourth edition (1695) -- Charles Perrault, Tales of my mother goose (1695) -- Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, Diverse works (1696) -- Catherine Bernard, "Prince Rosebush" and "Ricky of the tuft" in Inès of Cordova : a Spanish novel (1696) -- Mercure gallant, extract from The history of the Marquise / Marquis of Banneville (September 1696) -- Charles Perrault, Histories, or tales of past times (1697) license -- [Editor] Mercure galant, Presentation of Histories, or tales of past times (January 1697) -- Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Tales of the fairies (1697) and New tales, or The fashionable fairies (1698) -- Charlotte Rose de La Force, "Notice concerning the following story" in The tales of the tales (1698) -- Henriette Julie de Murat, Sublime and allegorical histories (1699) -- Abbé Pierre de Villiers, Conversations about the Contes de Fées and some other works of our time, to serve as an antidote to bad taste, dedicated to the gentlemen of the Académie Française (1699) -- Antoine Galland, Thousand and one nights : Arab tales translated into French (1704-1717).…”
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Fairy tales framed : early forewords, afterwords, and critical words

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to fairy tales -- Giovanni Boccaccio, The genealogy of the pagan gods (begun circa 1350) -- The literary fairy tale in Italy -- Giovan Francesco Straparola, The pleasant nights (1551,1553) -- Andrea Calmo, "Letter to Signora Frondosa" (1556) -- Girolamo Bargagli, Dialogue on games that are played during the Sienese Veglie (1572, written 1563) -- Giambattista Basile, The tale of tales (dedication for day 1, 1634) -- Girolamo Brusoni, The glories of the incogniti, or the illustrious men of the academy of the "unknown gentlemen" (1647) -- Pompeo Sarnelli, foreword to Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone (1674) and foreword to An outing to Posillipo (1684) -- Bartolomeo Lupardi, "Dedicatory letter to Signor Giuseppo Spada" (1679) -- Maddalena and Teresa Manfredi, and Teresa and Angiola Zanotti, The gossip on the chair (1742) -- Ferdinando Galiani, On the Neapolitan dialect (1779) -- Luigi Serio, The fart : response to on the Neapolitan dialect (1780) -- Fairy tales and fairyland fictions in France -- Charles Perrault, Griselda, Novella, with the tale of donkeyskin and that of the ridiculous wishes, fourth edition (1695) -- Charles Perrault, Tales of my mother goose (1695) -- Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, Diverse works (1696) -- Catherine Bernard, "Prince Rosebush" and "Ricky of the tuft" in Inès of Cordova : a Spanish novel (1696) -- Mercure gallant, extract from The history of the Marquise / Marquis of Banneville (September 1696) -- Charles Perrault, Histories, or tales of past times (1697) license -- [Editor] Mercure galant, Presentation of Histories, or tales of past times (January 1697) -- Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Tales of the fairies (1697) and New tales, or The fashionable fairies (1698) -- Charlotte Rose de La Force, "Notice concerning the following story" in The tales of the tales (1698) -- Henriette Julie de Murat, Sublime and allegorical histories (1699) -- Abbé Pierre de Villiers, Conversations about the Contes de Fées and some other works of our time, to serve as an antidote to bad taste, dedicated to the gentlemen of the Académie Française (1699) -- Antoine Galland, Thousand and one nights : Arab tales translated into French (1704-1717).…”
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East meets West in the Middle Ages and early modern times : transcultural experiences in the premodern world

Table of Contents: “…-- Jewish travelers in the Middle Ages -- A parallel Christian travel account and literary narrative: Fortunatus -- Jewish communities in the diaspora -- Historical contacts between East and West -- Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbona -- Additional Jewish perspectives -- Christian Pilgrim narratives in the late Middle Ages -- The most astute observer and reporter: Felix Fabri -- A brief comparison with Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron -- Trouble and conflicts: Christian pilgrims and Muslim population -- Bernhard von Breydenbach's Peregrinatio -- Other contacts and contact zones -- Europeans and the Ottoman World -- Anton von Pforr's German adaptation of Indian literature: cross-cultural experiences in the late Middle Ages -- Origin and framework of this volume -- Summaries of the contributions and critical reflections -- Conclusion and outlook…”
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Disjunktion und Diskrepanz : italienische und französische Aeneis-Travestien des 17. Jahrhunderts als burleske Antiketransformationen by Schöpe, Kai

Table of Contents: “…Travestirsi als Autopraxis (Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Castiglione)…”
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Dante's multitudes : history, philosophy, method by Barolini, Teodolinda, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…"Only historicize": history, material culture (food, clothes, books), and the future of Dante studies -- Dante's sympathy for the other, or the non-stereotyping imagination: sexual and racialized others in the Commedia -- Contemporaries who found heterodoxy in Dante: Cecco d'Ascoli, Boccaccio, and Benvenuto da Imola on Fortuna and Inferno 7.89 -- Dante's limbo and equity of access: non-Christians, children, and criteria of inclusion and exclusion, form Inferno 4 to Paradiso 32 -- Metaphysical difference. …”
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The history of linguistics in Italy

Table of Contents: “…THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS IN ITALY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Foreword; SIGN AND GRAMMAR IN DANTE A NON-MODISTIC LANGUAGE THEORY; THE 15TH-CENTURY CONTROVERSY ON THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY THE ANCIENT ROMANS: AN INQUIRY INTO ITALIAN HUMANIST CONCEPTS OF LATIN', GRAMMAR', AND 'VERNACULAR'; VENTICINQUE ANNI DI LESSICOGRAFIA ITALIANA DELLE ORIGINI (LEGGERE, SCRIVERE E "POLITAMENTE PARLARE"): NOTE SULL'IDEA DI LINGUA; PHILOLOGIA LINGUISTICA: LIONARDO SALVIATIS KOMMENTAR DER SPRACHE BOCCACCIOS (1584/86); L'ACCADEMIA DELLA CRUSCA E LA LINGUA ITALIANA.…”
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Shakespeare's sonnets and narrative poems by Cousins, A. D., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Donne's 'Elegy 19'; Chapter 2 Lucrece; (i) Versions of the Lucretia story by Ovid, Livy, Boccaccio, Chaucer and Gower; (ii) Genres.…”
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The humblest sparrow : the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus by Roberts, Michael, 1947 September 16-

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Christian Heritage. by Anastaplo, George

Table of Contents: “…Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Chapter Six. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375); Chapter Seven. Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400); Chapter Eight. …”
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VERNETZTER SPRACHUNTERRICHT;DIE SCHULFREMDSPRACHEN ENGLISCH, FRANZOSISCH, GRIECHISCH, ITALIENISCH, LATEIN, RUSSISCH UND by DR. MICHAEL FRINGS; SABINE E. PAFFENHOLZ; KLAUS SU

Table of Contents: “…Die Ringparabel als europäisches Thema: Gesta Romanorum -- Boccaccio -- Lessing. Ricarda Müller (Bad Kreuznach) -- Liebe entsteht beim Lesen von der Liebe. …”
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Mobs : an interdisciplinary inquiry

Table of Contents: “…Knoll -- Picturing and promoting new identities : the medieval university at Paris and its "nations" / Charlotte Bauer -- Communities, crowd-theory, and mob-theory in late-fourteenth century English history writing and poetry / Andrew Galloway -- Boccaccio's mobs : religious devotion, xenophobia, and Fama in three Decameron novelle / Robert W. …”
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Transkulturalität und Translation : Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters im europäischen Kontext. by Kasten, Ingrid

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Words that tear the flesh : essays on sarcasm in medieval and early modern literature and cultures

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Nero in opera : librettos as transformations of ancient sources by Manuwald, Gesine

Table of Contents: “…2.22 Targioni-Tozzetti, Nerone (1935)3 Nero in pieces of other performative genres; 3.1 Lohenstein, Agrippina (1665) -- spoken drama; 3.2 Lohenstein, Epicharis (1665) -- spoken drama; 3.3 Biancolelli, Il Nerone (1666) -- spoken drama; 3.4 Boccaccio, Il Nerone (1675) -- spoken drama; 3.5 Leva, Il Nerone (c. 1675-80) -- spoken drama; 3.6 Lazarino, Gli sponsali per l'impero (1682) -- spoken drama; 3.7 Alfieri, Ottavia (1783) -- spoken drama; 3.8 Legouvé, Épicharis et Neron (1794) -- spoken drama; 3.9 Panzieri, La morte di Nerone (1815/16) -- ballet; 3.10 Cossa, Nerone (1871) -- spoken drama.…”
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