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Border Reconfigurations in Contagious Societies. Epidemics as Biopolitical Crises from the Decameron to Nemesis

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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Reading and meaning : the reception of Boccaccio's Teseida, Decameron and De mulieribus claris to 1520 [PDF]

, 2003
Much of the twentieth-century research carried out on the reception of Boccaccio in medieval and Renaissance Italy has focused on the Decameron to the exclusion of all other works.
Daniels, Rhiannon Jane
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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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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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Old Decameron Bridge

, 2023
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Reinforced Concrete and Monier Pipe Construction Co. Pty Ltd
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From Latin QUO(D) VELLES to Romagnol Cvël: A Case of Degrammaticalisation from a Free‐choice Indefinite to the Noun ‘Thing’1

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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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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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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Risonanze classiche nel racconto della peste del Decameron

Acta Poética
In questo testo si propone una lettura della peste raccontata nel Decameron che prenda in esame la presenza di possibili stratificazioni o risonanze di fonti antiche e medievali che si possono intuire nel racconto che Giovanni Boccaccio offre all’inizio ...
Giuditta Cavalletti
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Perspectivas del siglo XIV: el cuento VI, I del Decamerón de Boccaccio (o de cómo hacer cosas con palabras)

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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