The Decameron First Day in Perspective /

The Decameron First Day in Perspective / / Elissa B. Weaver.

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 promi...

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Weaver, Elissa B.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction / Weaver, Elissa B.
  • The Decameron Proem / Hollander, Robert
  • The Place of the Title (Decameron, Day One, Introduction) / Stillinger, Thomas C.
  • The Stones
  • The Tale of Ser Ciappelletto (I.1) / Fido, Franco / Fido, Franco
  • The Tale of Abraham the Jew (Decameron I.2) / Cottino-Jones, Marga
  • The Tale of the Three Rings (I.3) / Stewart, Pamela D.
  • The Tale of the Monk and His Abbot (I.4) / Martinez, Ronald
  • The Tale of the Marchioness of Monferrato (I.5) / Terza, Dante Della
  • The Tale of the Inquisitor (I.6) / Smarr, Janet Levarie
  • The Tale of Bergamino (I.7) / Picone, Michelangelo
  • The Tale of Guiglielmo Borsiere (I.8) / Kirkham, Victoria
  • The Tale of the King of Cyprus and the Lady of Gascony (I.9) / Forni, Pier Massimo
  • The Tale of Maestro Alberto (I.10) / Marcus, Millicent
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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