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Altre Modernità, 2022 This article aims at investigating two narratives about historical moments of sociopolitical, economic, and cultural crisis represented through literary descriptions of epidemics.
Alice Balestrino
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Antecedenti boccacciani in alcuni personaggi della commedia rinascimentale [PDF]
, 2009 Argomento dell'articolo sono due gruppi di personaggi della commedia rinascimentale che non si rifanno ai tradizionali modelli plautini e terenziani: gli intellettuali e i personaggi femminili; essi presentano invece consistenti legami con il Decameron ...
Stäuble, Antonio
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Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 285-301, September 2025.Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 119-150, March 2024.Abstract Degrammaticalisation is an oft‐dismissed category of language change. In this paper evidence is provided for its existence, its triggers, and its conditions. This case study details the development of an understudied Old Italo‐Romance indefinite, covelle, a polarity‐sensitive item roughly translating as ‘anything’ which originated from a Latin
Nicola D’Antuono
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Da un italiano all’altro. Il “Decameron” di Aldo Busi [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2019 This contribution examines Aldo Busi’s 1990 translation of the Decameron from fourteenth-century Italian into the modern language. More specifically, it analyses the techniques adopted by Busi and his interpretive choices, focusing on the lexical and ...
Chiara Natoli
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Decameron I 9 Re di Cipri [PDF]
, 2014 La novella è presentata anche nella sua prima fonte (Novellino, 51) e nel rifacimento scritto da Paolo Beni nel ...
Marri, Fabio
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From plague to plague: COVID‐19 and the New Decameron(s)
International Social Science Journal, Volume 74, Issue 251, Page 25-36, March 2024.Abstract This article reflects on the role of narration in times of crisis. Drawing on studies on storytelling and bibliotherapy, it compares the Decameron, a collection of short stories written during and immediately after the 1348 Black Death, with two Decameron‐based collections written during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The New York ...
Valerio Angeletti
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Medievalia, 2016 Perspectivas del siglo XIV: el cuento VI, I del Decamerón de Boccaccio (o de cómo hacer cosas con palabras)
Ana Basarte
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Passioni boccacciane tra Francia e Italia
Griseldaonline, 2021 This paper focuses on the rewriting of some of the Decameron’s novellas both as a literary form, and as narrative patterns, by La Fontaine and Casti – for whose version of Boccaccio the former is an important intertext. La Fontaine and Casti’s rewritings
Filippo Fonio
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Faculty recital: John Muratore, guitar with Roberto Cassan, accordion, November 3, 2005 [PDF]
, 2005 This is the concert program of the Faculty Recital: John Muratore, guitar with Roberto Cassan, accordion performance on Thursday, November 3, 2005 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were "Trois Morceaux
School of Music, Boston University
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