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Boccaccio

Mary Shelley’s Literary Lives and other Writings, 2020
T. J. Mazzeo
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Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature

Italian Studies, 2023
manage and produce social and moral order, examining the extent to which rhetorical strategies and fiction can preserve this order and avoid danger. Grace Delmolino’s essay examines the gendered dynamics of IX, 7. She presents a non-misogynist reading of
Olivia Holmes
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Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron

, 2023
In Boccaccio's time, the Italian city-state began to take on a much more proactive role in prosecuting crime – one which superseded a largely communitarian, private approach.
J. Steinberg
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Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature

, 2023
This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio's sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative ...
Olivia Holmes
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Domesticating Philosophy: Dante's Women in Boccaccio

Mediaevalia, 2021
:This article brings together two works by the fourteenth-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio: his public lectures, Expositions on Dante's Divine Comedy, and the Latin collection of biographies On Famous Women.
Alyssa M. Granacki
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Griselda Between Boccaccio and Petrarch

Italica, 2020
The focus of the paper is Petrarch's Latin translation of Boccaccio's Griselda, the last tale of the last day of the Decameron (X, x). The translation became popular in Europe and was eventually adapted by Chaucer in his “Clerk's Tale.” Petrarch's ...
Massimo Verdicchio
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«Ut testatur Ovidius»: Boccaccio lettore dei commenti alle Metamorfosi

Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2019, 2020
The article investigates the relationship between Boccaccio's Genealogie and the exegesis of Ovid's Metamorphoses. For each character included in his genealogy, Boccaccio reports first of all the contents of the myth related to it and then the different ...
Ciccone Lisa
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Itinerari amazzonici in Boccaccio: il retroterra romanzo

Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2019, 2020
The theme of the Amazons accompanies Boccaccio’s vast literary production, from youth to maturity. The essay explores the interactions between texts of medieval french literature and Boccaccio’s works; at the same time, it aims to place Boccaccio’s works
Matteo Luti
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Boccaccio

1880
I programbladet Theaternissen.
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Il lessico del magistero nelle prose erudite di Giovanni Boccaccio

Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2019, 2020
The contribution aims to illustrate the results of the research conducted on the lexicon of the Petrarch-Boccaccio magisterium relationship. The research also made use of the comparison between Boccaccio's various masters: Petrarch on the one hand ...
E. Fritz
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