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Reconsidering Boccaccio
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ISBN: 1487513941 9781487513948 9781487501785 148751395X 9781487513955 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto

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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.


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Boccaccio and the consolation of literature
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ISBN: 9780888442291 0888442297 9781771104227 Year: 2022 Publisher: Toronto PIMS (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)

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The reader of Boccaccio's voluminous writings, from the early Filocolo through the Decameron and to the later Epistles, cannot help but marvel at the pervasive engagement with the power and reach of consolation. Time and again, his protagonists suffer heartache and tribulation and seek comfort in the words of others or, significantly, in the reading of literature. These scenes are accompanied, tellingly, by the author's own declarations for the care and solace of his readers. Although scholars have long recognized its importance, this wide-ranging and multifaceted exploration of the consolatory value of literature has not received the attention it deserves. Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature is the first sustained study of Boccaccio's consoling fictions as well as his reflections on the way literature can, and should, offer solace. Across five interlocking chapters, the book 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. While his narratives introduce figures and tropes that expound Stoic, Boethian, and Dantesque views of consolation -- calling to overcome sorrow through curbing the passions that lead to grief -- Boccaccio repeatedly dramatizes the limits of these traditions. In laying bare these limits and inviting readers instead to find comfort in shared sorrow or in the active pursuit of worldly desires Boccaccio fashions a new vision of consolatio for the later Middle Ages.

Negierte Implikation im Italienischen : Theorie und Beschreibung des sprachlichen Ausdrucks der Konzessivität auf der Grundlage der Prosasprache des "Decameron"
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ISBN: 3484522399 9783484522398 Year: 1992 Volume: 239 Publisher: Tübingen : Max Niemeyer,


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Boccace humaniste latin
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ISSN: 21035636 25557793 ISBN: 9782812436680 9782812436697 2812436689 2812436697 Year: 2016 Volume: 278 8 Publisher: Paris: Classiques Garnier,

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L'oeuvre latine de Boccace recouvre des champs et des genres aussi divers que la littérature encyclopédique, la poésie bucolique, l'histoire où l'épistolaire témoigne de l'humanisme naissant. Elle est riche d'une relecture attentive et enthousiaste des Anciens mais aussi profondément ancrée dans son époque. Plus encore, la Généalogie des dieux païens, les Destins des hommes illustres, les Femmes fortes, le Livre des monts et des fleuves ou les Poèmes bucoliques font apparaître une personnalité littéraire singulière qui conjugue érudition et souci d'innovation, narration séduisante et méditation philosophique. Ce sont autant d'aspects qu'explorent dans le présent volume les différents contributeurs, spécialistes à divers titres de littérature latine, d'humanisme et de culture italienne.


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The Cambridge companion to Boccaccio
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ISBN: 9781107014350 9781107609631 1107609631 1107014352 1316308405 113901398X 1316287599 9781139013987 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Incorporating the most recent research by scholars in Italy, the UK, Ireland and North America, this collection of essays foregrounds Boccaccio's significance as a pre-eminent scholar and mediator of the classical and vernacular traditions, whose innovative textual practices confirm him as a figure of equal standing to Petrarch and Dante. Situating Boccaccio and his works in their cultural contexts, the Companion introduces a wide range of his texts, paying close attention to his formal innovations, elaborate voicing strategies, and the tensions deriving from his position as a medieval author who places women at the centre of his work. Four chapters are dedicated to different aspects of his masterpiece, the Decameron, while particular attention is paid to the material forms of his works: from his own textual strategies as the shaper of his own and others' literary legacies, to his subsequent editorial history, and translation into other languages and media.


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Multa mentiere poetae : le débat sur la poésie de Boccace à Nicolas de Gonesse
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ISBN: 0919089062 9780919089068 Year: 1989 Volume: 6 Publisher: Montréal Editions CERES

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Old French literature --- Neo-Latin literature --- Nicolas de Gonesse --- Poetry --- Poésie --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Boccaccio, Giovanni, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Critique et interprétation --- Early works to 1800. --- 840 "14" NICOLAS DE GONESSE --- -Poems --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Franse literatuur--?"14"--NICOLAS DE GONESSE --- Philosophy --- Boccaccio, Giovanni --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -Franse literatuur--?"14"--NICOLAS DE GONESSE --- 840 "14" NICOLAS DE GONESSE Franse literatuur--?"14"--NICOLAS DE GONESSE --- -Boccaccio, Giovanni --- Boccaccio, Jean --- Boccace --- Poésie --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interprétation --- Bocace, Jean, --- Bocacio, Juan, --- Boccace, --- Boccace, Jean, --- Boccacius, Ioannes, --- Boccacius, Joannes, --- Boccatius, Ioannes, --- Boccatius, Joannes, --- Bochas, John, --- Bokachʻchʻo, Jiovanni, --- Bokachʻio, Jiovanni, --- Bokkachchʹo, Dzhʹovanni, --- Bokkachio, Dzhiovanni, --- Vocacio, Juan, --- Боккаччо, Дж, --- באקאשטיא, --- באקאטשא, דזשעאוואני, --- באקאטשיא --- באקאטשיא, --- בוקאצ׳ו, ג׳ובאני --- Bocace, Jean --- Bocacio, Juan --- Boccace, Jean --- Boccacius, Ioannes --- Boccacius, Joannes --- Boccatius, Ioannes --- Boccatius, Joannes --- Bochas, John --- Bokachʻchʻo, Jiovanni --- Bokachʻio, Jiovanni --- Bokkachchʹo, Dzhʹovanni --- Bokkachio, Dzhiovanni --- Vocacio, Juan --- Боккаччо, Дж --- Poetry - Early works to 1800.


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Ecumenismo della cultura : teoria e prassi della poetica dell'umanesimo onoranze a Giovanni Boccaccio
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ISBN: 8822229746 9788822229748 Year: 1981 Publisher: Firenze Olschki

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Leugens en vermaak : Boccaccio's novellen in de kluchtcultuur van de Nederlandse renaissance.
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ISBN: 905356201X Year: 1996 Publisher: Amsterdam : University press,

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Boccaccio's naked muse : eros, culture, and the mythopoeic imagination
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ISBN: 0802092047 1442687460 9781442687462 9780802092045 1442691433 Year: 2008 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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"Boccaccio's Naked Muse examines a writer who cast himself as the apostle of a new humanistic faith, one that would honour God by exalting his creation. In this study, Tobias Foster Gittes argues that Boccaccio did not simply reproduce Golden Age schemes in his works, but rather subtly altered and adapted them to produce a model of human beatitude more suited to his conviction that cultural achievement and human dignity are indissolubly linked."--Jacket.

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