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A Mirror for magistrates and the De casibus tradition
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ISBN: 128204219X 9786612042195 1442670398 9781442670396 0802047173 9780802047175 6612042192 Year: 2000 Publisher: Toronto University of Toronto Press

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Situates the often neglected collection of English Renaissance narrative poems A Mirror for Magistrates in the cultural context of its production, locating it not as a primitive form of tragedy, but as the epitome of the de casibus literary tradition.


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Boccaccio's fabliaux
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ISBN: 0813050030 0813048664 9780813048666 9780813049175 0813049172 9780813050034 Year: 2014 Publisher: Gainesville

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Provides a new and provocative interpretation of the relationship between medieval French fabliaux and Boccaccio's Decameron, examining their formal similarities.


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Boccaccio and the invention of Italian literature
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ISBN: 9781107300484 9781107041660 9781461950790 1461950791 1107300487 110704166X 1107521297 1139893394 1107501237 110750662X 1107516994 1107497264 1107503922 1316619699 9781107521292 9781139893398 9781107501232 9781107516991 9781107497269 9781107503922 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge New York

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Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written entirely in Boccaccio's hand, Martin Eisner brings together material philology and literary history to reveal the multiple ways Boccaccio authorizes this vernacular literary tradition. Each chapter offers a novel interpretation of Boccaccio as a biographer, storyteller, editor and scribe, who constructs arguments, composes narratives, compiles texts and manipulates material forms to legitimize and advance a vernacular literary canon. Situating these philological activities in the context of Boccaccio's broader reflections on poetry in the Decameron and the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, the book produces a new portrait of Boccaccio that integrates his vernacular and Latin works, while also providing a new context for understanding his fictions.


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Boccaccio's corpus
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ISBN: 0268104514 0268104492 9780268104528 0268104522 9780268104511 9780268104498 Year: 2019 Publisher: Notre Dame, Indiana

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In Boccaccio's Corpus, James C. Kriesel explores how medieval ideas about the body and gender inspired Boccaccio's vernacular and Latin writings. Scholars have observed that Boccaccio distinguished himself from Dante and Petrarch by writing about women, erotic acts, and the sexualized body. On account of these facets of his texts, Boccaccio has often been heralded as a protorealist author who invented new literatures by eschewing medieval modes of writing. This study revises modern scholarship by showing that Boccaccio's texts were informed by contemporary ideas about allegory, gender, and theology. Kriesel proposes that Boccaccio wrote about women to engage with debates concerning the dignity of what was coded as female in the Middle Ages. This encompassed varieties of mundane experiences, somatic spiritual expressions, and vernacular texts. Boccaccio championed the feminine to counter the diverse writers who thought that men, ascetic experiences, and Latin works had more dignity than women and female cultures. Emboldened by literary and religious ideas about the body, Boccaccio asserted that his “feminine” texts could signify as efficaciously as Dante's Divine Comedy and Petrarch's classicizing writings. Indeed, he claimed that they could even be more effective in moving an audience because of their affective nature— namely, their capacity to attract, entertain, and stimulate readers. Kriesel argues that Boccaccio drew on medieval traditions to highlight the symbolic utility of erotic literatures and to promote cultures associated with women.


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Giovanni Boccaccio: Die verliebte Fiammetta : Übersetzung von Johann Engelbert Noyse. Paralleldruck mit der Giolito-Ausgabe Venedig
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ISBN: 3110788748 3110786052 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Around 1600, two independent translations were made of Boccaccio’s Elegia di madonna Fiammetta (ca. 1343/44) in the Upper German speech area. This historical critical edition presents the older of the two translations by Johann Engelbert Noyse. Its bilingual format allows the translation (Venice 1565) to be compared with the original Italian text. This edition is targeted at both a specialist audience and interested readers. In der Zeitspanne von wenigen Jahrzehnten entstanden um 1600 zwei Übersetzungen von Giovanni Boccaccios Elegia di madonna Fiammetta (um 1343/44) unabhängig voneinander im oberdeutschen Sprachraum: beide blieben ungedruckt, vielleicht wegen der Thematik, eines inneren Monologes (»Klage«) einer verheiraten Dame über den Verlust ihres Liebhabers. Die historisch-kritische Edition präsentiert die ältere der beiden Übertragungen Johann Engelbert Noyses aus einem Manuskript im Besitz der Gräfin Maria Katharina Fugger (Bibl. Passau) und zieht stellenweise im Kommentarteil die zweite Übersetzung (Bibl. Bayreuth) des Ludwig Freiherr von Kuef(f)stein zum Vergleich heran. Ein italienischer Paralleldruck (Venedig 1565) erlaubt den Vergleich mit dem italienischen Ausgangstext. Die Ausgabe richtet sich sowohl an ein Fachpublikum als auch an interessierte Leser*innen.

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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Il Decameron : scritture, scriventi, lettori : storia di un testo.
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ISBN: 9788883342561 8883342569 Year: 2007 Volume: 5 Publisher: Roma Viella

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