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Between visual art and visual text. Intermediality and hypertext: A possible combination for twenty-first century philology [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2022 : The birth of digital writing, characterized by a process of correction that implies the omission of the preparatory editorial phases of a literary text, has brought about an epochal change in the author-text relationship, now characterized, for the ...
Teresa Nocita
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Per cacciar la malinconia delle femine: immaginazione e malattia d’amore nel Decameron di Boccaccio [PDF]
Noctua, 2023 The conceptions of lovesickness and of its remedies that emerge in the Decameron result from a medical tradition that in previous centuries was assimilated by the Latin culture.
Marilena Panarelli
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THE SUBMISSIVENESS MOTIF OF А WOMAN: THE GRISELDA TALE BY GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
Filolog, 2021 This paper presents the analysis of Griselda, the main female character of the last novella of Decameron. Tis novella has had different classical and feminist interpretations due to its central position and the violence caused to Griselda by her husband,
Сања Н. Кобиљ Ћуић
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A lesson on tolerance: reading the Decameron in the classroom
Italiano a scuola, 2021 The story of the three rings (Decam., I 3) has a long tradition in the West, from the early Middle Ages to Lessing. The Italian version, represented by Boccaccio and two other sources, seems to show an open attitude towards religions other than ...
Luca Serianni
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Boccaccio’s Decameron in Greek
Chronotopos, 2023 The article offers a brief historical overview of Boccaccio’s Decameron in Greek since the 16th century, focusing on the notion of Translation Agency. Intending to highlight the importance of this notion, I shall refer to key concepts, mainly Bourdieu’s
Stelios
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Reminiscenze decameroniane in “Quelle signore” di Umberto Notari [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2022 This essay focuses on references to Boccaccio in Umberto Notari’s novel, “Quelle signore” (1904). Notari’s text achieved phenomenal and long-term success (eighty thousand copies in a few months and three hundred copies in 1920), owing to the scabrous ...
Milena Contini
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 166-191, April 2023., 2023 Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 595-612, June 2022., 2022 Abstract World‐wide, diabetes is taking on epidemic proportions. This is a debilitating disease that damages and destroys bodily systems unless blood sugar levels are kept close to normal, and patients are therefore urged to practise attentive self‐management.
Tine M. Gammeltoft
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Ruin lust in George Gissing's Veranilda
Literature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3-4, April 2022., 2022 Abstract Ruinenlust (‘ruin lust’) or ruin aesthetics is a prominent feature of George Gissing's unfinished historical novel, Veranilda (1904), which is set in sixth‐century Italy and contains many memorable images of ruins. Drawing on the work of Georg Simmel, Rose Macaulay, Brian Dillon, and others, this article argues that, by examining these images ...
Gareth A. Reeves
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How Gabriel Harvey read tragedy*
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 5, Page 757-787, November 2021., 2021 Abstract In 1579, Gabriel Harvey bound together in a composite collection a surprising group of texts: an Italian grammar, an Italian translation of Terence’s comedies, Lodovico Dolce’s Italian rifacimenti of Euripides’ Medea and Seneca’s Thyestes, and Euripides’ Hecuba and Iphigenia in Erasmus’ Latin.
Tania Demetriou
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