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Reconsidering Boccaccio : Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts / ed. by Dana Stewart, Olivia Holmes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781487513948
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 858.109 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4286 .R436 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One: Material Contexts -- 1. Text and (Inter)Face: The Catchwords in Boccaccio’s Autograph of the Decameron -- 2. Reading Boccaccio’s Paratexts: Dedications as Thresholds between Worlds -- Part Two: Social Contexts: Friendship -- 3. Boccaccio on Friendship (Theory and Practice) -- 4. Among Boccaccio’s Friends: A Profi le of Mainardo Cavalcanti -- Part Three: Social Contexts: Gender, Marriage, and the Law -- 5. Reading Like a Woman: Gendering Compassion in the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta -- 6. The Economics of Conjugal Debt from Gratian’s Decretum to Decameron 2.10: Boccaccio, Canon Law, and the Loss of Interest in Sex -- 7. Authority and Misogamy in Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante -- 8. What Turns on Whether Women Are Human for Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan? -- Part Four: Political and Authorial Contexts: On Famous Women -- 9. On She-Wolves and Famous Women: Boccaccio, Politics, and the Neapolitan Court -- 10. Christine Transforms Boccaccio: Gendered Authorship in the De mulieribus claris and the Cité des dames -- 11. Reading Like a Frenchwoman: Christine de Pizan’s Treatment of Boccaccio’s Johanna I and Andrea Acciaiuoli -- Part Five: Literary Contexts and Intertexts -- 12. A Persian in a Pear Tree: Middle Eastern Analogues for Pirro/Pyrrhus -- 13. Splitting Pants and Pigs: The Fabliau “Barat et Haimet” and Narrative Strategies in Decameron 8.5 and 8.6 -- 14. The Tragicomedy of Lament: La Celestina and the Elegiac Legacy of Boccaccio’s Fiammetta -- 15. Sins, Sex, and Secrets: The Legacy of Confession from the Decameron to the Heptaméron -- Index
Summary: Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks. Grounded in Boccaccio’s own writings, Reconsidering Boccaccio brings a variety of methodologies and critical approaches to the works of one of the ‘three crowns’ of Italian literature. Containing essays by scholars not only of Italian literature, but also history, law, classics, and Middle Eastern literature, this collection is part of a vital movement to open up a dialogue among researchers in various areas of study that touch on the works of Boccaccio. The volume highlights the necessity of a technical and historical framework when approaching Boccaccio studies, while also shedding new light on the lives of women and their role in the reception of Boccaccio’s works.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One: Material Contexts -- 1. Text and (Inter)Face: The Catchwords in Boccaccio’s Autograph of the Decameron -- 2. Reading Boccaccio’s Paratexts: Dedications as Thresholds between Worlds -- Part Two: Social Contexts: Friendship -- 3. Boccaccio on Friendship (Theory and Practice) -- 4. Among Boccaccio’s Friends: A Profi le of Mainardo Cavalcanti -- Part Three: Social Contexts: Gender, Marriage, and the Law -- 5. Reading Like a Woman: Gendering Compassion in the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta -- 6. The Economics of Conjugal Debt from Gratian’s Decretum to Decameron 2.10: Boccaccio, Canon Law, and the Loss of Interest in Sex -- 7. Authority and Misogamy in Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante -- 8. What Turns on Whether Women Are Human for Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan? -- Part Four: Political and Authorial Contexts: On Famous Women -- 9. On She-Wolves and Famous Women: Boccaccio, Politics, and the Neapolitan Court -- 10. Christine Transforms Boccaccio: Gendered Authorship in the De mulieribus claris and the Cité des dames -- 11. Reading Like a Frenchwoman: Christine de Pizan’s Treatment of Boccaccio’s Johanna I and Andrea Acciaiuoli -- Part Five: Literary Contexts and Intertexts -- 12. A Persian in a Pear Tree: Middle Eastern Analogues for Pirro/Pyrrhus -- 13. Splitting Pants and Pigs: The Fabliau “Barat et Haimet” and Narrative Strategies in Decameron 8.5 and 8.6 -- 14. The Tragicomedy of Lament: La Celestina and the Elegiac Legacy of Boccaccio’s Fiammetta -- 15. Sins, Sex, and Secrets: The Legacy of Confession from the Decameron to the Heptaméron -- Index

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Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks. Grounded in Boccaccio’s own writings, Reconsidering Boccaccio brings a variety of methodologies and critical approaches to the works of one of the ‘three crowns’ of Italian literature. Containing essays by scholars not only of Italian literature, but also history, law, classics, and Middle Eastern literature, this collection is part of a vital movement to open up a dialogue among researchers in various areas of study that touch on the works of Boccaccio. The volume highlights the necessity of a technical and historical framework when approaching Boccaccio studies, while also shedding new light on the lives of women and their role in the reception of Boccaccio’s works.

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