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  1. The Decameron Ninth Day in perspective
    Contributor: Barsella, Susanna (HerausgeberIn); Marchesi, Simone (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    "The Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing an itinerary toward the attainment of virtue or following other possible interpretive... more

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    "The Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing an itinerary toward the attainment of virtue or following other possible interpretive schematics, Day Nine remains a liminal moment of pause before the inception of the final stories dedicated to the highest civic virtues of liberality and magnificence. This collection is comprised of extensive and rigorous essays by leading experts in the field of Boccaccio studies and medieval literature, shedding new critical light on the Ninth Day. The volume incorporates a multitude of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, visual arts, political history, and gender studies. Taking a holistic approach, the contributors to the volume trace the dense and multi-layered web of interrelations between the narrative units and the rest of the Decameron. Connections between individual stories are highlighted and interactions between Day Nine and its counterparts in the book are analysed. In doing so, The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective synthesizes existing scholarship but also opens up new horizons for future work."--

     

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  2. The Italian novella and Shakespeare's comic heroines
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto ; Buffalo ; London

    Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare’s comedies adapted the styles of wit,... more

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    Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare’s comedies adapted the styles of wit, character types, motifs, plots, and other narrative elements of the novella tradition for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and they investigated social norms and roles through a conversation carried out in narrative and drama. Arguing that Shakespeare’s comedies register the playwright’s reading of the novella tradition within the collaborative playmaking context of the early modern theatre, this book demonstrates how the comic vision of these plays increasingly valued women’s authority and consent in the comic conclusion. The representation of female characters in novella collections is complex and paradoxical, as the stories portray women not only in the roles of witty plotters and storytellers but also through a multifaceted poetics of enclosed spaces – including trunks, chests, caskets, graves, cups, and beds. The relatively open-ended rhetorical situation of early modern English theatre and the dialogic form and narrative material available in the novella tradition combine to help create the complex female characters in Shakespeare’s plays and a new form of English comedy

     

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  3. The Decameron eighth day in perspective
    Contributor: Robins, William (Publisher)
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto ; Buffalo ; London

    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... more

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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

     

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    Contributor: Robins, William (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781487535124; 9781487535131
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    Series: Toronto Italian studies
    Lectura Boccacci ; volume 8
    Subjects: Commedia; Dante; Decameron Eighth Day; Decameron; Florence; Giovanni Boccaccio; Medieval Italy; history of pranks; medieval literature; narrative; novella; practical jokes; short story; storytelling; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 284 Seiten)
  4. The Decameron fourth day in perspective
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto ; Buffalo ; London

    This volume, part of the Lectura Bocacccii 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... more

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    This volume, part of the Lectura Bocacccii 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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    ISBN: 9781487536312; 9781487536329
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    Lectura Boccaccii ; volume 4
    Subjects: Boccaccio; Decameron; Italian literature; Italian; Medieval literature; essays; literary criticism; literary history; novella; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
    Other subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375): Il Decamerone
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  5. The Italian novella and Shakespeare's comic heroines
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto ; Buffalo ; London

    Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare’s comedies adapted the styles of wit,... more

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    Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare’s comedies adapted the styles of wit, character types, motifs, plots, and other narrative elements of the novella tradition for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and they investigated social norms and roles through a conversation carried out in narrative and drama. Arguing that Shakespeare’s comedies register the playwright’s reading of the novella tradition within the collaborative playmaking context of the early modern theatre, this book demonstrates how the comic vision of these plays increasingly valued women’s authority and consent in the comic conclusion. The representation of female characters in novella collections is complex and paradoxical, as the stories portray women not only in the roles of witty plotters and storytellers but also through a multifaceted poetics of enclosed spaces – including trunks, chests, caskets, graves, cups, and beds. The relatively open-ended rhetorical situation of early modern English theatre and the dialogic form and narrative material available in the novella tradition combine to help create the complex female characters in Shakespeare’s plays and a new form of English comedy

     

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  6. The Decameron eighth day in perspective
    Contributor: Robins, William (Publisher)
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto ; Buffalo ; London

    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... more

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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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Robins, William (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781487535124; 9781487535131
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    Series: Toronto Italian studies
    Lectura Boccacci ; volume 8
    Subjects: Commedia; Dante; Decameron Eighth Day; Decameron; Florence; Giovanni Boccaccio; Medieval Italy; history of pranks; medieval literature; narrative; novella; practical jokes; short story; storytelling; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
    Other subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375): Il Decamerone
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 284 Seiten)
  7. The Decameron fourth day in perspective
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto ; Buffalo ; London

    This volume, part of the Lectura Bocacccii 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... more

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    This volume, part of the Lectura Bocacccii 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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781487536312; 9781487536329
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    Series: Toronto Italian studies
    Lectura Boccaccii ; volume 4
    Subjects: Boccaccio; Decameron; Italian literature; Italian; Medieval literature; essays; literary criticism; literary history; novella; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
    Other subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375): Il Decamerone
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 222 Seiten)
  8. The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective
    Contributor: Sherberg, Michael (Publisher)
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    This volume, part of the Lectura Bocacccii 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... more

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    This volume, part of the Lectura Bocacccii 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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    Contributor: Sherberg, Michael (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781487507473
    Series: Lectura Boccaccii ; 4
    Toronto Italian Studies
    Subjects: Boccaccio; Decameron; Italian literature; Italian; Medieval literature; essays; literary criticism; literary history; novella; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
    Other subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375): Il Decamerone
    Scope: vi, 222 Seiten
  9. The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective

    The Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron marks a new beginning. Its first story is the structural centre of the one hundred tales and signals the start of the day’s reflection on the power of the word as the fundamental building block of human... more

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    The Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron marks a new beginning. Its first story is the structural centre of the one hundred tales and signals the start of the day’s reflection on the power of the word as the fundamental building block of human communication. This collection gathers together readings of each of the ten stories in Day Six of the Decameron – the shortest of the entire work. Featuring a diverse group of literary scholars whose expertise is not limited to Boccaccio studies, the collection offers both comprehensive accounts of the tales and new interpretations of their significance. A major contribution to the study of the Decameron, it will also serve as an excellent starting point for new readers of Boccaccio’s masterpiece. The readings demonstrate how Boccaccio engaged in rethinking or elaborating on the heritage of Western literature and thought, including the Bible; the works of Dante; the Roman literary, rhetorical, and legal tradition; the writings of the Church Fathers; and the ideas of scholastic theologians. These lecturae employ a range of methodologies that account for both historical and theoretical issues in their engagement with Boccaccio's poetic and ethical project in the Decameron.

     

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    Contributor: Armstrong, Guyda; Barański, Zygmunt G.; Cardillo, Giulia; Carravetta, Peter; Cuilleanáin, Cormac Ó; Feng, Aileen A.; Kennedy, Teresa; Kriesel, James C.; Lettiero, Maria; Lummus, David; Lummus, David; Piciché, Bernardo
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781487508692
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
    Other subjects: Day 6; Decameron; Giotto; Giovanni Boccaccio; Guido Cavalcanti; Medieval Italian novella; Motto; Tale of Madonna; lecturae; medieval short story; plague; quarantine; short story collections; storytelling
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.)
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  10. The Decameron Ninth Day in perspective
    Contributor: Barsella, Susanna (HerausgeberIn); Marchesi, Simone (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    "The Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing an itinerary toward the attainment of virtue or following other possible interpretive... more

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    "The Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing an itinerary toward the attainment of virtue or following other possible interpretive schematics, Day Nine remains a liminal moment of pause before the inception of the final stories dedicated to the highest civic virtues of liberality and magnificence. This collection is comprised of extensive and rigorous essays by leading experts in the field of Boccaccio studies and medieval literature, shedding new critical light on the Ninth Day. The volume incorporates a multitude of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, visual arts, political history, and gender studies. Taking a holistic approach, the contributors to the volume trace the dense and multi-layered web of interrelations between the narrative units and the rest of the Decameron. Connections between individual stories are highlighted and interactions between Day Nine and its counterparts in the book are analysed. In doing so, The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective synthesizes existing scholarship but also opens up new horizons for future work."--

     

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  11. The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective
    Contributor: Lummus, David (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Tale of Madonna Oretta (VI.1) -- 2 The Tale of Cisti the Baker (VI.2) -- 3 The Tale of Nonna de’ Pulci (VI.3) -- 4 The Tale of Chichibio and the Crane (VI.4) -- 5 The Tale of Forese da Rabatta and... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Tale of Madonna Oretta (VI.1) -- 2 The Tale of Cisti the Baker (VI.2) -- 3 The Tale of Nonna de’ Pulci (VI.3) -- 4 The Tale of Chichibio and the Crane (VI.4) -- 5 The Tale of Forese da Rabatta and Giotto (VI.5) -- 6 The Tale of Michele Scalza (VI.6) -- 7 The Tale of Madonna Filippa (VI.7) -- 8 The Tale of Cesca and the Mirror (VI.8) -- 9 The Tale of Cavalcanti’s Leap (VI.9) -- 10 The Tale of Frate Cipolla (VI.10) -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index "The Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron marks a new beginning. Its first story is the structural centre of the one hundred tales and signals the start of the day's reflection on the power of the word as the fundamental building block of human communication. This collection gathers together readings of each of the ten stories in Day Six of the Decameron--the shortest of the entire work. Featuring a diverse group of literary scholars whose expertise is not limited to Boccaccio studies, the collection offers both comprehensive accounts of the tales and new interpretations of their significance. A major contribution to the study of the Decameron, it will also serve as an excellent starting point for new readers of Boccaccio's masterpiece. The readings demonstrate how Boccaccio engaged in rethinking or elaborating on the heritage of Western literature and thought, including the Bible; the works of Dante; the Roman literary, rhetorical, and legal tradition; the writings of the Church Fathers; and the ideas of scholastic theologians. These lecturae employ a range of methodologies that account for both historical and theoretical issues in their engagement with Boccaccio's poetic and ethical project in the Decameron."--

     

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  12. The decameron fourth day in perspective
    Contributor: Sherberg, Michael (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    This volume, part of the Lectura Bocacccii 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... more

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    This volume, part of the Lectura Bocacccii 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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  13. The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective
    Volume Eight of the Lectura Boccacci
    Contributor: Robins, William (HerausgeberIn)
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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... more

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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 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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    Other subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375): Decamerone; Commedia; Dante; Decameron Eighth Day; Decameron; Florence; Giovanni Boccaccio; Medieval Italy; history of pranks; medieval literature; narrative; novella; practical jokes; short story; storytelling
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  14. Boccaccio’s Florence
    politics and people in his life and work
    Author: Filosa, Elsa
    Published: 2022; ©2022
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and... more

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    Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as a writer. Boccaccio’s Florence explores the financial, political, and social turbulence of Florence at this time, as well as the major players in literary and political circles, to understand the complex ways they emerged in Boccaccio’s writing. Based on extensive archival research and close reading of Boccaccio’s works, the book aims to recover the dynamics of the Florentine conspiracy of 1360 and how this event affected Boccaccio’s writing, arguing that his works reveal clear references to this episode when read in light of the reconstructed historical context. In this rich and textured picture of the man in his time, Elsa Filosa documents a microhistory of connections and interconnections and offers new, more political and historically imbedded readings of Boccaccio’s seminal works

     

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    Other subjects: Consolatory Letter to Pino de’ Rossi; Decameron; Florence; Florentine Conspiracy of 1360; Ghibelline; Giovanni Boccaccio; Guelfs; Italian literature; Italy; Kingdom of Naples; Life of Dante; Petrarch
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  15. The Italian novella and Shakespeare’s comic heroines
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Enclosure, Conversation, and Spaces of Authorship -- Chapter One. Filomena’s Voice: Female Character and Authority in Shakespeare’s Early Italianate Comedies -- Chapter Two.... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Enclosure, Conversation, and Spaces of Authorship -- Chapter One. Filomena’s Voice: Female Character and Authority in Shakespeare’s Early Italianate Comedies -- Chapter Two. Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: The Casket Test and Audience Response in The Merchant of Venice -- Chapter Three. “Are You a Comedian?”: The Trunk in Twelfth Night as Mobility Machine -- Chapter Four. Novellesque Domesticity and Impossible Places in The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Chapter Five. Reforming Civility in Measure for Measure -- Chapter Six. Rewriting the “Ladies’ Text”: All’s Well That Ends Well -- Chapter Seven. Seeing as Reading and Retelling in Cymbeline -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Italian and French Novellas in England -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare’s comedies adapted the styles of wit, character types, motifs, plots, and other narrative elements of the novella tradition for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and they investigated social norms and roles through a conversation carried out in narrative and drama. Arguing that Shakespeare’s comedies register the playwright’s reading of the novella tradition within the collaborative playmaking context of the early modern theatre, this book demonstrates how the comic vision of these plays increasingly valued women’s authority and consent in the comic conclusion. The representation of female characters in novella collections is complex and paradoxical, as the stories portray women not only in the roles of witty plotters and storytellers but also through a multifaceted poetics of enclosed spaces – including trunks, chests, caskets, graves, cups, and beds. The relatively open-ended rhetorical situation of early modern English theatre and the dialogic form and narrative material available in the novella tradition combine to help create the complex female characters in Shakespeare’s plays and a new form of English comedy

     

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  16. The decameron fourth day in perspective
    Contributor: Sherberg, Michael (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    This volume, part of the Lectura Bocacccii 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... more

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    This volume, part of the Lectura Bocacccii 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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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
    Other subjects: Boccaccio; Decameron; Italian literature; Italian; Medieval literature; essays; literary criticism; literary history; novella
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  17. The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective
    Volume Eight of the Lectura Boccacci
    Contributor: Robins, William (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    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... more

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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 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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    Other subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375): Decamerone; Commedia; Dante; Decameron Eighth Day; Decameron; Florence; Giovanni Boccaccio; Medieval Italy; history of pranks; medieval literature; narrative; novella; practical jokes; short story; storytelling
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  18. The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective
    Contributor: Lummus, David (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Tale of Madonna Oretta (VI.1) -- 2 The Tale of Cisti the Baker (VI.2) -- 3 The Tale of Nonna de’ Pulci (VI.3) -- 4 The Tale of Chichibio and the Crane (VI.4) -- 5 The Tale of Forese da Rabatta and... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Tale of Madonna Oretta (VI.1) -- 2 The Tale of Cisti the Baker (VI.2) -- 3 The Tale of Nonna de’ Pulci (VI.3) -- 4 The Tale of Chichibio and the Crane (VI.4) -- 5 The Tale of Forese da Rabatta and Giotto (VI.5) -- 6 The Tale of Michele Scalza (VI.6) -- 7 The Tale of Madonna Filippa (VI.7) -- 8 The Tale of Cesca and the Mirror (VI.8) -- 9 The Tale of Cavalcanti’s Leap (VI.9) -- 10 The Tale of Frate Cipolla (VI.10) -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index "The Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron marks a new beginning. Its first story is the structural centre of the one hundred tales and signals the start of the day's reflection on the power of the word as the fundamental building block of human communication. This collection gathers together readings of each of the ten stories in Day Six of the Decameron--the shortest of the entire work. Featuring a diverse group of literary scholars whose expertise is not limited to Boccaccio studies, the collection offers both comprehensive accounts of the tales and new interpretations of their significance. A major contribution to the study of the Decameron, it will also serve as an excellent starting point for new readers of Boccaccio's masterpiece. The readings demonstrate how Boccaccio engaged in rethinking or elaborating on the heritage of Western literature and thought, including the Bible; the works of Dante; the Roman literary, rhetorical, and legal tradition; the writings of the Church Fathers; and the ideas of scholastic theologians. These lecturae employ a range of methodologies that account for both historical and theoretical issues in their engagement with Boccaccio's poetic and ethical project in the Decameron."--

     

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  19. The Italian novella and Shakespeare’s comic heroines
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Enclosure, Conversation, and Spaces of Authorship -- Chapter One. Filomena’s Voice: Female Character and Authority in Shakespeare’s Early Italianate Comedies -- Chapter Two.... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Enclosure, Conversation, and Spaces of Authorship -- Chapter One. Filomena’s Voice: Female Character and Authority in Shakespeare’s Early Italianate Comedies -- Chapter Two. Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: The Casket Test and Audience Response in The Merchant of Venice -- Chapter Three. “Are You a Comedian?”: The Trunk in Twelfth Night as Mobility Machine -- Chapter Four. Novellesque Domesticity and Impossible Places in The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Chapter Five. Reforming Civility in Measure for Measure -- Chapter Six. Rewriting the “Ladies’ Text”: All’s Well That Ends Well -- Chapter Seven. Seeing as Reading and Retelling in Cymbeline -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Italian and French Novellas in England -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare’s comedies adapted the styles of wit, character types, motifs, plots, and other narrative elements of the novella tradition for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and they investigated social norms and roles through a conversation carried out in narrative and drama. Arguing that Shakespeare’s comedies register the playwright’s reading of the novella tradition within the collaborative playmaking context of the early modern theatre, this book demonstrates how the comic vision of these plays increasingly valued women’s authority and consent in the comic conclusion. The representation of female characters in novella collections is complex and paradoxical, as the stories portray women not only in the roles of witty plotters and storytellers but also through a multifaceted poetics of enclosed spaces – including trunks, chests, caskets, graves, cups, and beds. The relatively open-ended rhetorical situation of early modern English theatre and the dialogic form and narrative material available in the novella tradition combine to help create the complex female characters in Shakespeare’s plays and a new form of English comedy

     

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  20. Boccaccio’s Florence
    politics and people in his life and work
    Author: Filosa, Elsa
    Published: 2022; ©2022
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and... more

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    Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as a writer. Boccaccio’s Florence explores the financial, political, and social turbulence of Florence at this time, as well as the major players in literary and political circles, to understand the complex ways they emerged in Boccaccio’s writing. Based on extensive archival research and close reading of Boccaccio’s works, the book aims to recover the dynamics of the Florentine conspiracy of 1360 and how this event affected Boccaccio’s writing, arguing that his works reveal clear references to this episode when read in light of the reconstructed historical context. In this rich and textured picture of the man in his time, Elsa Filosa documents a microhistory of connections and interconnections and offers new, more political and historically imbedded readings of Boccaccio’s seminal works

     

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    ISBN: 9781487532734; 9781487532727
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    RVK Categories: IT 6405
    Series: Toronto Italian Studies
    Subjects: History in literature; Politics in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian
    Other subjects: Consolatory Letter to Pino de’ Rossi; Decameron; Florence; Florentine Conspiracy of 1360; Ghibelline; Giovanni Boccaccio; Guelfs; Italian literature; Italy; Kingdom of Naples; Life of Dante; Petrarch
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 337 Seiten ), 6 schwarz-weiße Illustrationen