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Reseña del libro: Blanco Valdés, Carmen F. (2020), Vida de Dante Alighieri. Tratado en honor de Dante Alighieri florentino, poeta ilustre (edición crítica y traducción). Berlin: Peter Lang. 156 pp. ISBN: 978-3-631-82631-7.
Guillermo Alvar
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The Lettres Portugaises: Scripting and selling female desire
Abstract This article builds on previous literary scholarship to analyse the social and publication history of the enormously successful Lettres portugaises (1669), five letters published in the voice of an anonymous Portuguese nun to a French officer.
Jessica O'Leary
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Boccaccio in America. «Passaggi»: tra passato e futuro
Il 2013 anno delle celebrazioni del Settimo centenario della nascita di Giovanni Boccaccio è stato testimone di un animato numero di convegni ed eventi in Nord America, in Canada e negli Stati Uniti. In quest’articolo, partendo dai convegni e seminari
Roberta Morosini
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The following paper discusses the image of the Staufer empress Konstanze. This important political person was described in two books. On the one hand, Peter of Eboli draws her as a female heroine; on the other hand, the famous writer Giovanni Boccaccio ...
Paul Andreas Csillag
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The role of the Praenotamenta of Jodocus Badius Ascensius in shaping early modern dramatic criticism
Abstract This article examines the profound and enduring legacy of the treatise on classical drama known as Praenotamenta ascensiana in shaping early modern dramatic poetics. Written by Flemish scholar Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462–1535) as a preface to his 1502 edition of the Classical plays of Terence, this work has been unjustly overlooked by the ...
Giulia Torello‐Hill
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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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L’expression du hasard et sa fonction narrative dans le Décaméron
Boccace hérite d’une notion complexe de hasard, liée à la tradition savante de la philosophie, distinguant fortuna (pouvoir) et caso (événement effet de la fortuna) et passée dans le sens commun.
René Stella
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From plague to plague: COVID‐19 and the New Decameron(s)
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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El estudio que sigue constituye la primera parte de un ensayo más amplio en el que se pretende ofrecer un estado de la cuestión de la relación intertextual de Lope de Vega con los novellieri.
Juan Ramón Muñoz
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Il giardino tardogotico del Paradiso degli Alberti
Il saggio evidenzia l'unicità dell'operazione del Gherardi, il quale, diversamente da tutti gli altri narratori postboccacciani, nel Paradiso degli Alberti ribalta la struttura decameroniana, dilatando enormemente la cornice e riducendo drasticamente le ...
Antonio Lanza
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