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Author : Olivia Holmes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009224338
Olivia Holmes explores the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents against the backdrop of medieval religion and didacticism.
Author : Martin Eisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107041660
This book examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription.
Author : Guyda Armstrong,Rhiannon Daniels,Stephen J. Milner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107014350
A major re-evaluation of Boccaccio's status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547010111
Comprised of 100 novellas told by ten men and women over a ten-day journey fleeing plague-infested Florence, the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is an allegorical work famous for its bawdy portrayals of everyday life, its searing wit and mockery, and its careful adherence to a framed structure. The word "decameron" is derived from the Greek and means "ten days".
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674003470
After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. The 106 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries. In the hands of a master storyteller, these brief biographies afford a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Famous Women, which Boccaccio continued to revise and expand until the end of his life, became one of the most popular works in the last age of the manuscript book, and had a signal influence on many literary works, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Castiglione's Courtier. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio,Robert Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486411132
A group of young people flee to the countryside from plague-ridden Florence and pass the time in their retreat by telling tales of romance. This selection from Boccaccio's landmark of medieval literature features 25 stories from the original 100, all teeming with colorful characters and worldly wisdom. J. M. Rigg translation.
Author : Gur Zak
Publisher : Studies and Texts
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0888442297
This volume is the first sustained study of Boccaccio's consoling fictions as well as his reflections on the way literature can, and should, offer solace. It analyzes the affective, exemplary, and cognitive modes of consolation that mark the poet's works; but it also underlines the critical dialogue with the ancient and medieval traditions Boccaccio inherits. The limits of Stoic, Boethian, and Dantesque views of consolation are laid bare as Boccaccio fashions a new vision of consolatio for the later Middle Ages.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:465553929
Author : Rhiannon Daniels
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : 9781906540494
As a new digital era increasingly impacts on the 'age of print', we are ever more conscious of the way in which information is packaged and received. The influence of the material form on the reading process was no less important during the gradual shift from manuscript to early print culture. Focusing on the physical structure and presentation of manuscripts and printed books containing texts by one of the most influential authors of the medieval period, Rhiannon Daniels traces the evolving social, cultural, and economic profile of Boccaccio's readership and the scribes and printers who laboured to reproduce three of his works: the Teseida, Decameron, and De mulieribus claris.
Author : Martin Eisner,David G. Lummus
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268105914
A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio’s impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe. Martin Eisner and David Lummus co-edit the first comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio’s impact on the Renaissance. The essays investigate what it means to follow a Boccaccian model, in tandem with or in place of ancient authors such as Vergil or Cicero, or modern poets such as Dante or Petrarch. The book probes how deeply the Latin and vernacular works of Boccaccio spoke to the Renaissance humanists of the fifteenth century. It treats not only the literary legacy of Boccaccio’s works but also their paradoxical importance for the history of the Italian language and reception in theater and books of conduct. While the geographical focus of many of the essays is on Italy, the volume concludes with three studies that open new inroads to understanding his influence on Spanish, French, and English writers across the sixteenth century. The book will appeal strongly to scholars and students of Boccaccio, the Italian and European Renaissance, and Italian literature. Contributors: Jonathan Combs-Schilling, Rhiannon Daniels, Martin Eisner, Simon Gilson, James Hankins, Timothy Kircher, Victoria Kirkham, David Lummus, Ronald L. Martinez, Ignacio Navarrete, Brian Richardson, Marc Schachter, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Levarie Smarr
Author : Victoria Kirkham,,Michael Sherberg,Janet Levarie Smarr
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226079219
Long celebrated as one of “the Three Crowns” of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings—which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance to invective—became powerful models for authors in Italy and across the Continent. This collection of essays presents Boccaccio’s life and creative output in its encyclopedic diversity. Exploring a variety of genres, Latin as well as Italian, it provides short descriptions of all his works, situates them in his oeuvre, and features critical expositions of their most salient features and innovations. Designed for readers at all levels, it will appeal to scholars of literature, medieval and Renaissance studies, humanism and the classical tradition; as well as European historians, art historians, and students of material culture and the history of the book. Anchored by an introduction and chronology, this volume contains contributions by prominent Boccaccio scholars in the United States, as well as essays by contributors from France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The year 2013, Boccaccio’s seven-hundredth birthday, will be an important one for the study of his work and will see an increase in academic interest in reassessing his legacy.
Author : Giuseppe Mazzotta
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400854189
Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : David J. Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521381827
In Boccaccio's innovative text ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of storytelling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new and familiar conflicts with unprecendented subtlety, urgency and humor: everything from the struggle for domestic space, fought out between individual men and women, to the greater politics of the Mediterranean world where Christian and Arab meet. He emphasizes the relationship between the Decameron and the precocious proto-capitalist culture of Boccaccio's Florence. He also discusses gender issues and the influence of the text, particularly on Chaucer and on the novel.
Author : Florence Nightingale Jones
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0666562571
Excerpt from Boccaccio and His Imitators: In German, English, French, Spanish, and Italian Literature; "The Decameron" It has seemed best not to incumber the following list with detailed references to the work in which the imitation occurs. The title, so far as it indicates the character of the story, has been given whenever possible, but references to editions, volumes, pages, would defeat the object aimed at, which is to bring together, in the smallest compass possible, the imitations of the Decameron in European literature. As for acknowledgment of indebt edness to others, the Bibliography gives the principal sources from which this list has been made up. Again the hope is expressed that the list is reason ably accurate, i. E., accurate enough for the purpose for which it was intended, to bring together in a sort of bird's-eye-view all of the reworkings of the stories of the Decameron, in prose or verse, which number nearly a thousand and which form no inconsiderable part of the literature of the six centuries which will soon have elapsed since the birth of Boccaccio. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780859911863
David Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of Boccaccio. Previous studies of the relationship between the work of the two poets have tended to consider Chaucer's borrowings without making a thorough study of the traditions which shaped the Italian writer's work. Wallace argues that Boccaccio was not primarily concerned with winning recognition at the Angevin court, but was chiefly concerned with fashioning an identity for himself as an illustrious vernacular author. Chaucer recognised that both the l>Filostrato/l> and l>Teseida/l> derived their basic narrative capabilities from popular tradition analogous to that of the English tail-rhyme romance. Following a detailed analysis of Chaucer's translation practice in l>Troilus and Criseyde/l>, Wallace concludes that it was Boccaccio's attempt to develop a narrative art occupying the middle ground between popular and illustrious, domestic and European traditions that Chaucer found so uniquely congenial and instructive.