Reconsidering Boccaccio : : Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts / / Olivia Holmes, Dana Stewart.
Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio's remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator, his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range, and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks. Grounded in Bo...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction / Holmes, Olivia / Stewart, Dana E.
- Part One: Material Contexts
- 1. Text and (Inter)Face: The Catchwords in Boccaccio's Autograph of the Decameron / Clarke, K. P.
- 2. Reading Boccaccio's Paratexts: Dedications as Thresholds between Worlds / Daniels, Rhiannon
- Part Two: Social Contexts: Friendship
- 3. Boccaccio on Friendship (Theory and Practice) / Houston, Jason
- 4. Among Boccaccio's Friends: A Profi le of Mainardo Cavalcanti / Boli, Todd
- Part Three: Social Contexts: Gender, Marriage, and the Law
- 5. Reading Like a Woman: Gendering Compassion in the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta / Ronchetti, Alessia
- 6. The Economics of Conjugal Debt from Gratian's Decretum to Decameron 2.10: Boccaccio, Canon Law, and the Loss of Interest in Sex / Delmolino, Grace
- 7. Authority and Misogamy in Boccaccio's Trattatello in laude di Dante / Díaz, Sara E.
- 8. What Turns on Whether Women Are Human for Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan? / Case, Mary Anne
- Part Four: Political and Authorial Contexts: On Famous Women
- 9. On She-Wolves and Famous Women: Boccaccio, Politics, and the Neapolitan Court / Casteen, Elizabeth
- 10. Christine Transforms Boccaccio: Gendered Authorship in the De mulieribus claris and the Cité des dames / Brownlee, Kevin
- 11. Reading Like a Frenchwoman: Christine de Pizan's Treatment of Boccaccio's Johanna I and Andrea Acciaiuoli / Walters, Lori J.
- Part Five: Literary Contexts and Intertexts
- 12. A Persian in a Pear Tree: Middle Eastern Analogues for Pirro/Pyrrhus / Lewis, Franklin
- 13. Splitting Pants and Pigs: The Fabliau "Barat et Haimet" and Narrative Strategies in Decameron 8.5 and 8.6 / Brown, Katherine A.
- 14. The Tragicomedy of Lament: La Celestina and the Elegiac Legacy of Boccaccio's Fiammetta / Andrei, Filippo
- 15. Sins, Sex, and Secrets: The Legacy of Confession from the Decameron to the Heptaméron / Peterson, Nora Martin
- Index