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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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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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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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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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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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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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Community, Survival, and the Arts in the Boccaccian Tradition

Modern Languages Open, 2023
This essay brings Edgar Allan Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death” into dialogue with Giovanni Boccaccio’s 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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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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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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