UID:
almafu_9959246063002883
Format:
1 online resource (452 pages)
ISBN:
1-4875-1395-X
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1-4875-1394-1
Series Statement:
Toronto Italian Studies
Content:
Reconsidering Boccaccio explores the exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range of the Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio, his dialogue with voices and traditions that surrounded him, and the way that his legacy illuminates the interconnectivity of numerous cultural networks.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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 Profile 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.
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6. The Economics of Conjugal Debt from Gratian's Decretum to Decameron 2.10: Boccaccio, Canon Law, and the Loss of Interest in; 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; 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 Cite des dames.
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11. Reading Like a Frenchwoman: Christine de Pizan's Treatment of Boccaccio's Johanna I and Andrea AcciaiuoliPart 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 Heptameron; Index.
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4875-0178-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781487513948
