Petrarch and Boccaccio : the Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World /

Table of Contents: “…Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on Religious Conversion /…”
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Boccaccio's fabliaux : medieval short stories and the function of reversal / by Brown, Katherine Adams, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Fabliaux reversals and La Grue -- The Fabliaux in context: BNF fr. 2173 -- Medieval story collections and framing devices -- Boccaccio's Fabliaux: transmission and transformation of the Fabliaux to the Decameron -- Conclusion.…”
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Reconsidering Boccaccio : medieval contexts and global intertexts /

Table of Contents: “…Text and (Inter)Face: The Catchwords in Boccaccio's Autograph of the Decameron; 2. Reading Boccaccio's Paratexts: Dedications as Thresholds between Worlds; Part Two: Social Contexts: Friendship; 3. …”
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Boccaccio's corpus : allegory, ethics, and vernacularity / by Kriesel, James C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Boccaccio's corpus: text and body -- The allegory of the corpus: Genealogie deorum gentilium and scholarly works -- The poetics of the corpus: Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine (Ameto) -- The ethics of the corpus: Amorosa visione -- The love of the corpus: Decameron -- The hatred of the corpus: Corbaccio.…”
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Boccaccio's Naked Muse : Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination. by Gittes, Tobias Foster

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Translations -- Introduction -- 1 Universal Myths of Origin: Boccaccio and the Golden Age Motif -- The Classical Golden Age Traditions -- Boccaccio's Elegiac Primitivism -- Boccaccio's Rationalistic Reevaluation of the Golden Age -- The Escape to Paradise -- 2 Local Myths of Origin: The Birth of the City and the Self -- Physical Restoration: The Fertile Loam of Tuscany -- Political Restoration and Miscegenation: Ex Pluribus Unum -- Boccaccio's Fruitful Bastardy -- 3 The Myth of a New Beginning: Boccaccio's Palingenetic Paradise -- Tabula Rasa and Saïtic Seed: The Effacement and Replacement of Knowledge -- The Restoration of Knowledge: The Poet as Pedagogical Pimp -- Nel Cospetto degli Uomini: The Prophylactic Peep-show of Decameron VI -- 4 The Myth of Historical Foresight: Babel and Beyond -- On the Shoulders of (Blasphemous) Giants: The Limits of Knowledge -- Through the Literary Looking-glass: The Textual Monument as Mirror -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.…”
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Boccaccio's Naked Muse : Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination. by Gittes, Tobias Foster

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Translations -- Introduction -- 1 Universal Myths of Origin: Boccaccio and the Golden Age Motif -- The Classical Golden Age Traditions -- Boccaccio's Elegiac Primitivism -- Boccaccio's Rationalistic Reevaluation of the Golden Age -- The Escape to Paradise -- 2 Local Myths of Origin: The Birth of the City and the Self -- Physical Restoration: The Fertile Loam of Tuscany -- Political Restoration and Miscegenation: Ex Pluribus Unum -- Boccaccio's Fruitful Bastardy -- 3 The Myth of a New Beginning: Boccaccio's Palingenetic Paradise -- Tabula Rasa and Saïtic Seed: The Effacement and Replacement of Knowledge -- The Restoration of Knowledge: The Poet as Pedagogical Pimp -- Nel Cospetto degli Uomini: The Prophylactic Peep-show of Decameron VI -- 4 The Myth of Historical Foresight: Babel and Beyond -- On the Shoulders of (Blasphemous) Giants: The Limits of Knowledge -- Through the Literary Looking-glass: The Textual Monument as Mirror -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.…”
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Boccaccio and the invention of Italian literature : Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the authority of the vernacular / by Eisner, Martin, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Boccaccio between Dante and Petrarch: cultivating vernacular literary community in the Chigi codex -- 1. …”
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The world at play in Boccaccio's Decameron / by Mazzotta, Giuseppe, 1942-

Subjects: “…Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.…”
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The Decameron First Day in Perspective. by Weaver, Elissa B.

Subjects: “…Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.…”
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The Decameron third day in perspective : volume three of the Lectura Boccaccii

Subjects: “…Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.…”
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The Decameron First Day in Perspective. by Weaver, Elissa B.

Subjects: “…Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.…”
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Five Frames for the ""Decameron"" : Communication and Social Systems in the CORNICE. by Potter, Joy Hambuechen

Subjects: “…Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.…”
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Building a monument to Dante : Boccaccio as Dantista / by Houston, Jason M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Medieval and Modern""; ""Boccaccio, Editor of Dante""; ""The Legacy of Boccaccioâ€?…”
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Building a monument to Dante : Boccaccio as Dantista / by Houston, Jason M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Medieval and Modern""; ""Boccaccio, Editor of Dante""; ""The Legacy of Boccaccioâ€?…”
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Courtesy lost : Dante, Boccaccio, and the literature of history / by Olson, Kristina

Table of Contents: “…"Fateci dipignere la Cortesia": Historicizing cortesia -- 1 Boccaccio's History of cortesia: The Incivility and Greed of the Elite -- 2 Boccaccio's Politics of cortesia: Narrating the Elite and the gente nuova -- 3 The Ethical (and Dantean) Framework of the Decameron: The Avarice of Clerics and Merchants -- 4 Constructing a Future for cortesia in the Past: Virility, Nobility, and the History of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.…”
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The ethical dimension of the Decameron by Migiel, Marilyn, 1954-

Subjects: “…Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.…”
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A Rhetoric of the Decameron. by Migiel, Marilyn

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Citations of the Decameron -- Introduction: A Rhetoric of the Decameron (and why women should read it) -- 1 Woman as Witness -- 2 Fiammetta v. Dioneo -- 3 Boccaccio's Sexed Thought -- 4 To Transvest Not to Transgress -- 5 Women's Witty Words: Restrictions on Their Use -- 6 Men, Women, and Figurative Language in the Decameron -- 7 Domestic Violence in the Decameron -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.…”
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A Rhetoric of the Decameron. by Migiel, Marilyn

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Citations of the Decameron -- Introduction: A Rhetoric of the Decameron (and why women should read it) -- 1 Woman as Witness -- 2 Fiammetta v. Dioneo -- 3 Boccaccio's Sexed Thought -- 4 To Transvest Not to Transgress -- 5 Women's Witty Words: Restrictions on Their Use -- 6 Men, Women, and Figurative Language in the Decameron -- 7 Domestic Violence in the Decameron -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.…”
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Decameron and the philosophy of storytelling : author as midwife and pimp by Kuhns, Richard, 1924-2010

Subjects: “…Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone Criticism, Textual.…”
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Medieval Tradition of Thebes : History and Narrative in the Roman de Thebes, Boccaccio, Chaucer and Lydgate. by Battles, Dominique

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Credits; Series Editor's Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction Statius in the Middle Ages; Chapter One The OF Roman de Thèbes: The Ancients vs. the Moderns; Chapter Two Boccaccio's Teseida and the Destruction of Troy; Chapter Three Restoring Thebes: Chaucer's Theban Poems; Chapter Four Faulty Connections: The Theban Context of the Troilus; Chapter Five John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes: Breaking the Theban Curse; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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A Boccaccian renaissance : essays on the early modern impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and his works /

Table of Contents: “…Boccaccio and the political thought of Renaissance humanism / James Hankins -- Boccaccio's humanist brigata : reading the Decameron in the Quattrocento / Timothy Kircher -- Poets prefer company : Boccaccio's portraits and the three crowns of Florence / Victoria Kirkham -- Under the cover of a green-hued book : Boccaccio's pastoral project / Jonathan Combs-Schilling -- Squarzafico's vita di Boccaccio and early modern print culture : a new model for the study of biography / Rhiannon Daniels -- Vernacularizing the Latin Boccaccio in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy : notes on Niccolò Liburnio's Delli monti, selve, boschi and Giuseppe Betussi's Genealogia de gli dei / Simon A. …”
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Fuentes, reescrituras e intertextos : la novella italiana en el entremés del Siglo de Oro by Resta, Ilaria

Subjects: “…Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 Influence.…”
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Scripto sopra Theseu Re : il commento salentino al "Teseida" di Boccaccio (Ugento/Nardò, ante 1487) /

Subjects: “…Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Teseida.…”
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A Mirror for magistrates and the De casibus tradition by Budra, Paul Vincent, 1957-

Subjects: “…Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.…”
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A Mirror for magistrates and the De casibus tradition by Budra, Paul Vincent, 1957-

Subjects: “…Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.…”
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La Teseida Traducción Castellana Del Siglo XV. by Boccaccio, Giovanni

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A local habitation and a name : imagining histories in the Italian renaissance by Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953-

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The wisdom of the Middle Ages by Kellogg, Michael K., 1954-

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Mimesis, Repräsentation, Imagination : literaturtheoretische Positionen von Aristoteles bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts

Table of Contents: “…Anthropologische Poetik und Bildlichkeit bei Giovanni Boccaccio --…”
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En busca del Fénix : quince estudios sobre Lope de Vega y su teatro by Dixon, Victor

Table of Contents: “…Lope de Vega no conocía el Decamerón de Boccaccio --…”
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Saberes inestables : estudios sobre expurgación y censura en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII

Table of Contents: “…La antología de Francesco Sansovino y sus novellieri ante la censura: los casos de Giovanni Boccaccio y Masuccio Salernitano /…”
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Wasser in der mittelalterlichen Kultur : Gebrauch - Wahrnehmung - Symbolik / Uses, Perceptions, and Symbolism by Huber-Rebenich, Gerlinde

Table of Contents: “…Wassersymbolik und Zeitenwende bei Boccaccio --…”
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The Italian Novella. by Allaire, Gloria

Table of Contents: “…Lies My Father Told Me: Boccaccio's Novelletta of Filippo Balducci and His Son; 2. …”
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Paroimia by D'Eugenio, Daniela

Table of Contents: “…Temistocle Franceschi's Paremiology -- Variations of Paremias in Genre, Culture, and Language -- Paremiological Categorizations: Proverbs, Proverbial Phrases, and Wellerisms -- Chapter Two Vincenzo Brusantino's Le cento novelle: Paremias and Tridentine Ethics in Reinterpreting the Decameron -- Brusantino's "Translation" of Boccaccio's Decameron -- The Defining Attributes of Brusantino's Le cento novelle -- Rewriting the Decameron through Octaves and Paremias -- Le cento novelle: A Stylistic and Social Adaptation of the Decameron…”
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Building the Canon Through the Classics : Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580). by Morra, Eloisa

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Building the Canon through the Classics: Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580); Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on the Editor; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Boccaccio as Homer: A Recently Discovered Self-portrait and the 'modern' Canon; 3 In the Center of the Kaleidoscope: Ovidian Poetic Image and Boccaccio's Self-Representation in De Mulieribus Claris; 4 The Place of the Father: The Reception of Homer in the Renaissance Canon; 5 Politian: The Philologer as Artist…”
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Hermes' lyre : Italian poetic self-commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella by Roush, Sherry

Table of Contents: “…Beyond Explication: Poets and Their Own Commentaries -- Part One. Dante and Boccaccio: The Emergence of Italian Poetic Self-Commentary -- 1 'You might call it something of a commentary': Defining Terms in Dante's Vita Nuova and Convivio -- 2 'Only the ploughshare aided by many clever talents cleaves the soil of poetry': Boccaccio's Earthly Vision of the Text and the Requisites for its Interpretation -- Part Two. …”
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Catholic Church and the Jewish People : Recent Reflections from Rome. by Bennett, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Dante and the Invention of the Novel Reader -- 4. Boccaccio, Cervantes, and the Path to Solitary Reading -- 5. …”
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Savoring power, consuming the times : the metaphors of food in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature by Palma, Pina

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : taste and see the power of food -- The language of food in Boccaccio's Decameron -- Of frogs, giants, and the court : Pulci's Morgante -- Banquets of power : Boiardo's Innamorato and the politics of gastronomy -- Meals, transformations, and the belly of history : Ariosto's Furioso -- Courtesans and figs, art and nature in Aretino's Ragionamento -- Conclusion.…”
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Savoring power, consuming the times : the metaphors of food in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature by Palma, Pina

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : taste and see the power of food -- The language of food in Boccaccio's Decameron -- Of frogs, giants, and the court : Pulci's Morgante -- Banquets of power : Boiardo's Innamorato and the politics of gastronomy -- Meals, transformations, and the belly of history : Ariosto's Furioso -- Courtesans and figs, art and nature in Aretino's Ragionamento -- Conclusion.…”
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Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati : the reprehension of vice by Alfie, Fabian

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Dante's Harsh New Style -- Chapter One: La debita correzione: The Poetics of Insult in the Duecento -- Chapter Two: Ad personam, ad stipitem: Readings of the Sonnets -- Chapter Three: Hellish Echoes: Reminiscences of the Correspondence in Inferno XXIX and XXX -- Chapter Four: The Terrace of the Tenzone: Purgatorio XXIII and XXIV -- Chapter Five: Citations and Interpretations: The Literary Memory of the Sonnets in Boccaccio and Others.…”
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