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The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective / ed. by William Robins.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]Copyright date: 2020Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 1 b&w map, 1 b&w tableContent type:
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  • 9781487506902
  • 9781487535124
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 853/.1 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4287 .D428 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Tale of Gulfardo and Ambruogia (VIII.1) -- Obscene Exchanges (VIII.2) -- The Artist and the Police (VIII.3) -- Monna Piccarda, Ciutazza, and the Provost of Fiesole: An Absence of Beauty (VIII.4) -- The Jokesters and the Judge (VIII.5) -- The Tale of Calandrino and the Stolen Pig (VIII.6) -- The Scholar and the Widow: Corrupt Appetite and Moral Failure in Society’s Intellectual Elite (VIII.7) -- Doing unto Others, or Sienese Polyamory (VIII.8) -- The Three Faults of Master Simone (VIII.9) -- The Tale of Salabaetto and Iancofiore (VIII.10) -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the text’s Day Eight – a day dedicated to tales of tricks and practical jokes. By drawing on literary precursors such as fabliaux, epic, philosophy, exempla, Dante’s Commedia, and scripture, and by meditating on the dynamics of civic engagement in fourteenth-century Florence, Boccaccio develops in these stories of jests a self-consciously literary representation of the Florentine social imaginary. The essays in this volume, all written by prominent scholars, survey previous scholarship and open up new cultural and historical perspectives on Boccaccio’s sophisticated art of storytelling. They analyze both the literary sources that Boccaccio’s comic narratives transform, as well as the political, legal, and ethical contexts with which they engage. Each contributor tackles a single tale, yet their essays also register major themes and concerns that recur throughout Day Eight, allowing for close connections among the essays.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Tale of Gulfardo and Ambruogia (VIII.1) -- Obscene Exchanges (VIII.2) -- The Artist and the Police (VIII.3) -- Monna Piccarda, Ciutazza, and the Provost of Fiesole: An Absence of Beauty (VIII.4) -- The Jokesters and the Judge (VIII.5) -- The Tale of Calandrino and the Stolen Pig (VIII.6) -- The Scholar and the Widow: Corrupt Appetite and Moral Failure in Society’s Intellectual Elite (VIII.7) -- Doing unto Others, or Sienese Polyamory (VIII.8) -- The Three Faults of Master Simone (VIII.9) -- The Tale of Salabaetto and Iancofiore (VIII.10) -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the text’s Day Eight – a day dedicated to tales of tricks and practical jokes. By drawing on literary precursors such as fabliaux, epic, philosophy, exempla, Dante’s Commedia, and scripture, and by meditating on the dynamics of civic engagement in fourteenth-century Florence, Boccaccio develops in these stories of jests a self-consciously literary representation of the Florentine social imaginary. The essays in this volume, all written by prominent scholars, survey previous scholarship and open up new cultural and historical perspectives on Boccaccio’s sophisticated art of storytelling. They analyze both the literary sources that Boccaccio’s comic narratives transform, as well as the political, legal, and ethical contexts with which they engage. Each contributor tackles a single tale, yet their essays also register major themes and concerns that recur throughout Day Eight, allowing for close connections among the essays.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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