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21. Diana's Hunt/Caccia Di Diana:
 
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22. The Genealogy of Women: Studies
 
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23. Giovanni Boccaccio As Man and
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24. A Rhetoric of the Decameron (Toronto
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25. The Decameron First Day in Perspective
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26. The Decameron and the Canterbury
 
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27. Design in Chaucer's Troilus
 
28. Nature and Reason in the Decameron
 
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29. The Boccaccian Novella: Creation
 
30. Narrative Intellection in the
 
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31. The Ideology of the Decameron
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32. Decameron and the Philosophy of
 
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33. Decameron Its Sources & Analogues
 
34. GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO ANNOT BIBLI
 
35. Order from Chaos: Social and Aesthetic
 
36. Five Frames for the Decameron:
 
37. An Allegory of Form: Literary
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38. Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping
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39. Chaucer and the Early Writings
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40. Boccaccio in English: A Bibliography

21. Diana's Hunt/Caccia Di Diana: Boccaccios First Edition (Middle Ages Series)
by Anthony K. Cassell
 Hardcover: 144 Pages (1990-12)
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22. The Genealogy of Women: Studies in Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris (Studies in the Humanities (New York, N.Y.), V. 62.)
by Stephen Kolsky
 Hardcover: 254 Pages (2003-06)
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Composed in the 1360s, Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris (Famous Women) was the first attempt at female biography in the history of post-classical Western literature. However, its humanistic credentials coexist uneasily with the remnants of medieval misogyny. This book-the first full-length study of De mulieribus claris in English-argues that it is essential to take into account the ideological complexities of early humanism confronted with the "woman question." It seeks to unravel the difficulties of the text, looking at its genesis, sources, relations to other writings-including Boccaccio's vernacular works-its political dimensions, and its structure and methodology, to shed light on Boccaccio the humanist rewriting and rethinking his previous attitudes toward women. ... Read more


23. Giovanni Boccaccio As Man and Author.
by John Addington Symonds
 Hardcover: Pages (1968-06)
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24. A Rhetoric of the Decameron (Toronto Italian Studies)
by Marilyn Migiel
Paperback: 220 Pages (2004-01-15)
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Both a passionate denunciation of masculinist readings of the Decameron and a meticulous critique of previous feminist analyses, Marilyn Migiel's A Rhetoric of the Decameron offers a sophisticated re-examination of the representations of women, men, gender identity, sexuality, love, hate, morality, and truth in Boccaccio's masterpiece. The Decameron stages an ongoing, dynamic, and spirited debate about issues as urgent now as in the fourteenth century – a debate that can only be understood if the Decameron's rhetorical objectives and strategies are completely reconceived.

Addressing herself equally to those who argue for a proto-feminist Boccaccio – a quasi-liberal champion of women's autonomy – and to those who argue for a positivistically secure historical Boccaccio who could not possibly anticipate the concerns of the twenty-first century, Migiel challenges readers to pay attention to Boccaccio's language, to his pronouns, his passives, his echolalia, his patterns of repetition, and his figurative language. She argues that human experience, particularly in the sexual realm, is articulated differently by the Decameron's male and female narrators, and refutes the notion that the Decameron offers an undifferentiated celebration of Eros. Ultimately, Migiel contends, the stories of the Decameron suggest that as women become more empowered, the limitations on them, including the threat of violence, become more insistent.

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25. The Decameron First Day in Perspective (Toronto Italian Studies)
Paperback: 304 Pages (2004-03-20)
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Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is the best known and most read work in Italian literature next to Dante's Divine Comedy. In the tradition of Lectura Dantis, the practice of story-by-story critical readings of Dante's work, Elissa Weaver has collected essays from some of the most prominent American Boccaccio scholars to provide critical readings of the Decameron Proem, Introduction, and the ten stories that constitute the first of the ten 'days' of storytelling.

The first of the twelve essays opens the volume with a consideration of the Proem, demonstrating the importance of Boccaccio's literary subtexts (Ovidian and Dantean) for understanding his poetics. The second essay, on the Introduction, discusses the title of the work and the framing tale. The remaining ten contributions treat in detail each story, examining the literary, ethical, and social concerns embodied in the short narratives and in the context provided by the comments and discussions of the story-tellers, and exploring the intertextual relations within the Decameron and with sources and analogues. This inaugural book in a new series of critical essays on the Decameron will provide an important guide to reading the complex series of narratives that constitute the opening of the Decameron and will serve as a guide to reading the entire work. ... Read more


26. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question
Hardcover: 352 Pages (2000-03)
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27. Design in Chaucer's Troilus
by Sanford Brown Meech
 Hardcover: 529 Pages (1969-11-28)
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Textual analysis of Chaucer's masterpiece which illuminates both the originality of the poet and his use of Italian sources. The critic begins his study on the premise that the creative process in Troilus was a deliberate and conscious affair, and thus his study can deduce the guiding principles of Chaucer's art. ... Read more


28. Nature and Reason in the Decameron (Publications of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Manchester ; no. 21)
by Robert Alistair Bartley Gordon Hastings
 Hardcover: 116 Pages (1965-10)
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29. The Boccaccian Novella: Creation and Waning of a Genre (Studies in Italian Culture Literature in History)
by Corradina Caporello-Szykman
 Hardcover: 157 Pages (1990-12)
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30. Narrative Intellection in the Decameron
by Stavros Deligiorgis
 Hardcover: 233 Pages (1975-06)
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31. The Ideology of the Decameron
by Max Alexander Staples
 Hardcover: 304 Pages (1995-05)
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32. Decameron and the Philosophy of Storytelling: Author as Midwife and Pimp
by Richard Kuhns
Hardcover: 208 Pages (2005-04-15)
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In this creative and engaging reading, Richard Kuhns explores the ways in whichDecameron'ssexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral argument, and aesthetic and literary criticism. As he reveals the stories' many philosophical insights and literary pleasures, Kuhns also examinesDecameronin the context of the nature of storytelling, its relationship to other classic works of literature, and the culture of trecento Italy.

Stories and storytelling are to be interpreted in terms of a wider cultural context that includes masks, metamorphosis, mythic themes, and character analysis, all of which Boccaccio explores with wit and subtlety. As a storyteller, Boccaccio represents himself as literary pimp, conceiving the relationship between storyteller and audience in sexual terms within a tradition that goes back as far as Socrates' conversations with the young Athenians.

As a whole, Boccaccio's great collection of stories creates a trenchant criticism of the ideas that dominated his social and cultural world. Addressed as it is to women who were denied opportunities for education, the author's stories create a university of wise and culturally observant texts. He teaches that comic, religious, sexual, and artistic themes can be seen to function as metaphors for hidden and often dangerous unorthodox thoughts.

Kuhns suggests thatDecameronis one of the first self-conscious creations of what we today call "a total work of art." Throughout the stories, Boccaccio creates a detailed picture of the Florentine trecento cultural world. Giotto, Buffalmacco, and other great painters of Boccaccio's time appear in the stories. Their works and the paintings that surround the characters as they prepare to leave the plague-ridden city, with their representations of Dante, Aquinas, and other thinkers, are essential to understanding the ways the stories work with other works of art and illuminate and enlarge interpretations of Boccaccio's book.

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33. Decameron Its Sources & Analogues
by A. C. Lee
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Gives a detailed history of the antecedents of Boccaccio's famous work, showing how it evolved from numerous sources. Comprehensive analysis of each "novel" of each day.

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34. GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO ANNOT BIBLI (Garland Medieval Bibliographies)
by Consoli
 Hardcover: 484 Pages (1992-02-01)
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35. Order from Chaos: Social and Aesthetic Harmonies in Boccaccio's Decameron
by Marga Cottino-Jones
 Paperback: 210 Pages (1982-06)
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36. Five Frames for the Decameron: Communications and Social Systems in the Cornice
by Joy H. Potter
 Hardcover: 230 Pages (1982-05)
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37. An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the Decameron (Stanford French and Italian Studies, v. 18)
by Millicent Marcus
 Paperback: 136 Pages (1979-06)
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38. Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire
by Robert Hollander
Hardcover: 240 Pages (1997-10-01)
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Before the publications of Robert Hollander and Attilio Bettinzoli in the early 1980s, there was little recognition of the surprisingly large debt owed by Boccaccio to Dante hidden in the pages of the Decameron. Boccaccio's knowledge and use of the works of Dante constitute a challenging topic, one that is beginning to receive the attention it deserves.
Among commentators, it had been an unexamined commonplace that the "young" Boccaccio either did not know well or did not understand sufficiently the texts of Dante (even though the "young" Boccaccio is construed as including the thirty-eight-year-old author of the Decameron.) In Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire, Robert Hollander offers a valuable synthesis of new material and some previously published essays, addressing the question of Dante's influence on Boccaccio, particularly concerning the Commedia and the Decameron.
Hollander reveals that Boccaccio's writings are heavy with reminiscences of the Dante text, which he believed to be the greatest "modern" work. It was Boccaccio's belief that Dante was the only writer who had achieved a status similar to that reserved for the greatest writers of antiquity. Most of these essays try to show how carefully Boccaccio reflects the texts of Dante in the Decameron. Some essays also turn to the question of Boccaccio's allied reading of Ovid, especially the amatory work, as part of his strategy to base his work primarily on these two great authorities as he develops his own vernacular and satiric vision of human foolishness.
Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire is a welcome addition to the field of Dante studies and to medieval studies in general.
Robert Hollander is Professor in European Literature and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University. He has received the city of Florence's gold medal for work advancing our understanding of Dante.
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39. Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio (Chaucer Studies)
by David Wallace
Hardcover: 350 Pages (1985-05-30)
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David Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of Boccaccio. Previous studies of the relationship between the work of the two poets have tended to consider Chaucer's borrowings without making a thorough study of the traditions which shaped the Italian writer's work. Wallace argues that Boccaccio was not primarily concerned with winning recognition at the Angevin court, but was chiefly concerned with fashioning an identity for himself as an illustrious vernacular author. Chaucer recognised that both the l>Filostrato/l> and l>Teseida/l> derived their basic narrative capabilities from popular tradition analogous to that of the English tail-rhyme romance. Following a detailed analysis of Chaucer's translation practice in l>Troilus and Criseyde/l>, Wallace concludes that it was Boccaccio's attempt to develop a narrative art occupying the middle ground between popular and illustrious, domestic and European traditions that Chaucer found so uniquely congenial and instructive. ... Read more


40. Boccaccio in English: A Bibliography of Editions, Adaptations, and Criticism (Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature)
by F. S. Stych
Hardcover: 280 Pages (1995-01-30)
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Boccaccio's writings were influential throughout the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, affecting authors such as Chaucer and Shakespeare, and since then scholarship on Boccaccio has flourished. This bibliography provides a comprehensive record of editions and adaptations of Boccaccio in English, English-language criticism of Boccaccio, Italian editions of Boccaccio published in English-speaking countries, English-language criticism, and foreign language criticism published by English-speaking authors. The first part of the volume lists editions of Boccaccio's works, beginning with his minor writings and ending with his masterpiece, the Decameron. The second part lists adaptations and parallels, while the third is a bibliography of criticism. In each section, works are arranged chronologically, so the reader can trace the response to Boccaccio over time. To facilitate access to entries, the work includes seven indexes. Annotations indicate the scope or intention of critical works and the relationship of editions to one another. ... Read more


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