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The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective / ed. by Michael Sherberg.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]Copyright date: 2020Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781487506667
  • 9781487536312
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 853/.1 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4287 .D4257 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Decameron Citations -- Introduction -- Love, Latinity, and Aging in the Introduction to Day Four -- “A questa tanto picciola vigilia de’ vostri sensi”: Senile Recidivism, Incest, and Egotism in Decameron IV.1 -- Incarnation in Venice (IV.2) -- The Tale of the Three Ill-Starred Sisters (IV.3) -- Love, Heroism, and Masculinity in the Tale of Gerbino (IV.4) -- The Tale of Lisabetta da Messina (IV.5) -- The Dream of the Shadow (IV.6) -- Spinning Yarns in Decameron IV.7 -- Girolamo’s Wicked Mother and the Setback of Reason in Taming Lovesickness (IV.8) -- How the vida of Guilhem de Cabestanh “quasi tutta si disfece” (IV.9) -- Happy Endings (IV.10) -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: This volume, part of the Lectura Boccaccii series organized by the American Boccaccio Association, offers close readings by top scholars of Day Four of the Decameron. As fans of the Decameron know, the Fourth Day opens with an important intervention in which the author defends his project against his critics, which coincides with a significant change in tone as the subject matter turns to stories with unhappy endings. The contributors approach the stories from a variety of perspectives, including the linguistic, philosophical, anthropological, and literary historical. These fresh readings of stories that are nearly seven hundred years old testify to the enduring power of Boccaccio’s masterpiece to speak to new audiences and to find compelling relevance even at a great distance from its immediate medieval context.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Decameron Citations -- Introduction -- Love, Latinity, and Aging in the Introduction to Day Four -- “A questa tanto picciola vigilia de’ vostri sensi”: Senile Recidivism, Incest, and Egotism in Decameron IV.1 -- Incarnation in Venice (IV.2) -- The Tale of the Three Ill-Starred Sisters (IV.3) -- Love, Heroism, and Masculinity in the Tale of Gerbino (IV.4) -- The Tale of Lisabetta da Messina (IV.5) -- The Dream of the Shadow (IV.6) -- Spinning Yarns in Decameron IV.7 -- Girolamo’s Wicked Mother and the Setback of Reason in Taming Lovesickness (IV.8) -- How the vida of Guilhem de Cabestanh “quasi tutta si disfece” (IV.9) -- Happy Endings (IV.10) -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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This volume, part of the Lectura Boccaccii series organized by the American Boccaccio Association, offers close readings by top scholars of Day Four of the Decameron. As fans of the Decameron know, the Fourth Day opens with an important intervention in which the author defends his project against his critics, which coincides with a significant change in tone as the subject matter turns to stories with unhappy endings. The contributors approach the stories from a variety of perspectives, including the linguistic, philosophical, anthropological, and literary historical. These fresh readings of stories that are nearly seven hundred years old testify to the enduring power of Boccaccio’s masterpiece to speak to new audiences and to find compelling relevance even at a great distance from its immediate medieval context.

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In English.

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