Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

Contents
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List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Chronology of Boccaccio’s Life and Works - Victoria Kirkham......Page 14
Introduction: A Man of Many Turns - Janet Levarie Smarr......Page 22
Part I. The Vernacular Master
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1. Also Known as “Prencipe Galeotto” (Decameron) - Ronald L. Martinez......Page 44
2. The Textual History of the Decameron - Brian Richardson......Page 62
Part II. The Autodidact
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3. Moments of Latin Poetry (Carmina) - Giuseppe Velli......Page 74
4. A Fable of the World’s Creation and Phaeton’s Fall (Allegoriamitologica) - Steven M. Grossvogel......Page 84
5. A Portrait of a Young Humanist (Epistolae 1–4) - Jason Houston......Page 90
Part III. Classical Romances
......Page 96
6. Love-Struck in Naples (Filostrato) - David Wallace......Page 98
7. A Lovers’ Tale and Auspicious Beginning (Filocolo) - Elissa Weaver......Page 108
8. The Girl outside the Window (Teseida delle nozze d’Emilia) - Michael Sherberg......Page 116
Part IV. Allegorical Terza Rima
......Page 128
9. The Game of Love (Caccia di Diana) - Arielle Saiber......Page 130
10. Mural Morality in Tableaux Vivants (Amorosa visione) - Jonathan Usher......Page 140
Part V. New Pastorals
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11. On the Threshold of Paradise (Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine, or Ameto) - Jane Tylus......Page 154
12. Myth and History: Toward a New Order (Ninfale fi esolano) - Susanna Barsella......Page 166
13. The Changing Landscape of the Self (Buccolicum carmen) - David Lummus......Page 176
Part VI. Woman And Women
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14. An Experiment in the Healing Power of Literature (Elegia di madonna Fiammetta) - Annelise M. Brody......Page 194
15. Rhetoric and Invective in Love’s Labyrinth (Il Corbaccio) - Letizia Panizza......Page 204
16. Doing and Undoing: Boccaccio’s Feminism (De mulieribus claris) - Deanna Shemek......Page 216
Part VII. Devotion To Dante And Petrarch
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17. A Life in Progress (De vita et moribus Francisci Petracchi de Florentia) - Giuseppe Mazzotta......Page 228
18. To Praise Dante, to Please Petrarch (Trattatello in laude di Dante) - Elsa Filosa......Page 234
19. Boccaccio’s Divided Allegiance (Esposizioni sopra la “Comedia”) - Robert Hollander......Page 242
Part VIII. Historian And Humanist
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20. Gods, Greeks, and Poetry (Genealogia deorum gentilium) - Jon Solomon......Page 256
21. Boccaccio on Fortune (De casibus virorum illustrium) - Simone Marchesi......Page 266
22. Vernacularization in Context (Volgarizzamenti of Livy, Valerius Maximus, and Ovid) - Alison Cornish......Page 276
Part IX Geographical Explorations
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23. Boccaccio’s Humanistic Ethnography (De Canaria) - James K. Coleman......Page 286
24. Between Text and Territory (De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus et de diversis nominibus maris) - Theodore J. Cachey Jr.......Page 294
Part X. Miscellanies: Lyrics, Letters, Notebooks
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25. Pathways through the Lyric Forest (Rime) - Roberto Fedi......Page 304
26. Personality and Conflict (Epistole, Lettere) - Todd Boli......Page 316
27. Boccaccio’s Working Notebooks (Zibaldone Laurenziano, Miscellanea Laurenziana, Zibaldone Magliabechiano) - Claude Cazalé Bérard......Page 328
Part XI. Epilogue
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28. A Visual Legacy (Boccaccio as Artist) - Victoria Kirkham......Page 342
29. An Intimate Self-Portrait (Testamentum) - Michael Papio......Page 362
Notes......Page 374
Bibliography......Page 506
List of Contributors......Page 550
Index......Page 558