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Arts, 2023 This article addresses the use of Latin accounts of Homer’s archetypal sorceress, Circe, in visual narratives constructed to embellish quattrocento marriage chests (cassoni).
Margaret Franklin
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Community, Survival, and the Arts in the Boccaccian Tradition
Modern Languages Open, 2023 This essay brings Edgar Allan Poes Masque of the Red Death into dialogue with Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron, a fourteenth-century Italian text. Though different in scale, both texts start with an experience of plague and follow a group of people who ...
Jennifer Rushworth
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APPUNTI SUL DE NUPTIIS PHILOLOGIAE ET MERCURII NELLA COMEDIA DELLE NINFE FIORENTINE
Peloro, 2018 Questo articolo intende essere un contributo al dibattito sui modelli a cui Giovanni Boccaccio si ispirò nella costruzione del prosimetro della Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine: dopo una ricognizione dello status quaestionis, l’A. propone di annoverare tra
Antonino Antonazzo
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Miłość i strach w Dekameronie Giovanniego Boccaccia
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Litteraria Romanica, 2022 In the Introduction to the First Day of the Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio depicts the Black Death pandemic and also portrays the devastating effects of death on emotional states of Florentines.
Anna Gallewicz
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Anuario Lope de Vega: Texto, Literatura, Cultura, 2013 Noticia sobre el artículo «“Escribía / después de haber los libros consultado”: a propósito de Lope y los novellieri, un estado de la cuestión (con especial atención a la relación con Giovanni Boccaccio), parte II»
Victoria Pineda, Enrico Di Pastena
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Journal of Spectroscopy, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018 Parchment is the primary writing medium of the majority of documents with cultural importance. Unfortunately, this material suffers of several mechanisms of degradation that affect its chemical‐physical structure and the readability of text. Due to the unique and delicate character of these objects, the use of nondestructive techniques is mandatory. In
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 311-322, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 469-488, June 2026.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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Anuario Lope de Vega: Texto, Literatura, Cultura, 2013 Este trabajo constituye la continuación natural de «“Escribía / después de haber los libros consultado”: a propósito de Lope y los novellieri, un estado de la cuestión (con especial atención a la relación con Giovanni Boccaccio), parte I».
Juan Ramón Muñoz
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