The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective /

The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective / / ed. by David Lummus.

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 r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Armstrong, Guyda,
Barański, Zygmunt G.,
Cardillo, Giulia,
Carravetta, Peter,
Cuilleanáin, Cormac Ó.,
Feng, Aileen A.,
Kennedy, Teresa,
Kriesel, James C.,
Lettiero, Maria,
Lummus, David,
Piciché, Bernardo,
HerausgeberIn:
Lummus, David ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Tale of Madonna Oretta (VI.1)
  • 2 The Tale of Cisti the Baker (VI.2)
  • 3 The Tale of Nonna de’ Pulci (VI.3)
  • 4 The Tale of Chichibio and the Crane (VI.4)
  • 5 The Tale of Forese da Rabatta and Giotto (VI.5)
  • 6 The Tale of Michele Scalza (VI.6)
  • 7 The Tale of Madonna Filippa (VI.7)
  • 8 The Tale of Cesca and the Mirror (VI.8)
  • 9 The Tale of Cavalcanti’s Leap (VI.9)
  • 10 The Tale of Frate Cipolla (VI.10)
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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