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Visualizing Boccaccio : studies on illustrations of The Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini
In this feminist critique of Boccacio's classic book of erotic tales, Ricketts exposes tensions generated by sexual difference that motivate privilege, and investigates the possibility of change in power relations associated with that privilege.
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Boccaccio's Fabliaux
Short works known for their humor and ribaldry, the fabliaux were comic or satirical tales told by wandering minstrels in medieval France. Although the fabliaux are widely acknowledged as inspiring Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, theDecameron, this theory has never been substantiated beyond perceived commonalities in length and theme. This new and provocative interpretation examines the formal similarities between theDecameron's tales of wit, wisdom, and practical jokes and the popular thirteenth-century fabliaux.
Katherine Brown examines these works through a prism of reversal and chiasmus to show that Boccaccio was not only inspired by the content of the fabliaux but also by their fundamental design--where a passage of truth could be read as a lie or a tale of life as a tale of death. Brown reveals close resemblances in rhetoric, literary models, and narrative structure to demonstrate how the Old French manuscripts of the fabliaux were adapted in the organization of theDecameron.
Identifying specific examples of fabliaux transformed by Boccaccio for his classicDecameron, Brown shows how Boccaccio refashioned borrowed literary themes and devices, playing with endless possibilities of literary creation through manipulations of his model texts.
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The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective
The Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron marks a new beginning. Its first story is the structural centre of the one hundred tales and signals the start of the day’s reflection on the power of the word as the fundamental building block of human communication. This collection gathers together readings of each of the ten stories in Day Six of the Decameron – the shortest of the entire work. Featuring a diverse group of literary scholars whose expertise is not limited to Boccaccio studies, the collection offers both comprehensive accounts of the tales and new interpretations of their significance. A major contribution to the study of the Decameron , it will also serve as an excellent starting point for new readers of Boccaccio’s masterpiece.
The readings demonstrate how Boccaccio engaged in rethinking or elaborating on the heritage of Western literature and thought, including the Bible; the works of Dante; the Roman literary, rhetorical, and legal tradition; the writings of the Church Fathers; and the ideas of scholastic theologians. These lecturae employ a range of methodologies that account for both historical and theoretical issues in their engagement with Boccaccio's poetic and ethical project in the Decameron .
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Petrarch and Boccaccio : the unity of knowledge in the pre-modern world
The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual revolution. Internationally renowned scholars are invited to discuss and rethink the historical, intellectual, and literary roles of Petrarch and Boccaccio between the great model of Dante's encyclopedia and the ideas of a double or multifaceted culture in the era of Italian Renaissance Humanism. In his lyrical poems and Latin treatises, Petrarch created a cultural pattern that was both Christian and Classical, exercising immense influence on the Western World in the centuries to come. Boccaccio translated this pattern into his own vernacular narratives and erudite works, ultimately claiming as his own achievement the reconstructed unity of the Ancient Greek and Latin world in his contemporary age. The volume reconsiders Petrarch's and Boccaccio's heritages from different perspectives (philosophy, theology, history, philology, paleography, literature, theory), and investigates how these heritages shaped the cultural transition between the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern era, as well as European identity.
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Boccaccio's Naked Muse
Venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropological material,Boccaccio's Naked Museoffers fresh insights on this hugely significant literary figure.
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A Boccaccian renaissance : essays on the early modern impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and his works
\"A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio's impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe. Martin Eisner and David Lummus co-edit the first comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio's impact on the Renaissance. The essays investigate what it means to follow a Boccaccian model, in tandem with or in place of ancient authors such as Vergil or Cicero, or modern poets such as Dante or Petrarch. The book probes how deeply the Latin and vernacular works of Boccaccio spoke to the Renaissance humanists of the fifteenth century. It treats not only the literary legacy of Boccaccio's works but also their paradoxical importance for the history of the Italian language and reception in theater and books of conduct\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Building a Monument to Dante
Building a Monument to Danteemploys literary analysis coupled with philological and historical evidence to argue that Boccaccio's multifaceted work as Dante's editor, biographer, apologist, and commentator created a literary figure that could support Boccaccio's poetic and political ideologies.
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A Boccaccian Renaissance
A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written
by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national
traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of
Boccaccio's impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy
and Europe. Martin Eisner and David Lummus co-edit the first
comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio's impact on the
Renaissance.
The essays investigate what it means to follow a Boccaccian
model, in tandem with or in place of ancient authors such as Vergil
or Cicero, or modern poets such as Dante or Petrarch. The book
probes how deeply the Latin and vernacular works of Boccaccio spoke
to the Renaissance humanists of the fifteenth century. It treats
not only the literary legacy of Boccaccio's works but also their
paradoxical importance for the history of the Italian language and
reception in theater and books of conduct.
While the geographical focus of many of the essays is on Italy,
the volume concludes with three studies that open new inroads to
understanding his influence on Spanish, French, and English writers
across the sixteenth century. The book will appeal strongly to
scholars and students of Boccaccio, the Italian and European
Renaissance, and Italian literature.
Contributors: Jonathan Combs-Schilling, Rhiannon Daniels, Martin
Eisner, Simon Gilson, James Hankins, Timothy Kircher, Victoria
Kirkham, David Lummus, Ronald L. Martinez, Ignacio Navarrete, Brian
Richardson, Marc Schachter, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Levarie
Smarr
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