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The Decameron
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 206–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Tobias Foster Gittes Giovanni Boccaccio . The Decameron . Trans. Wayne A. Rebhorn . New York : W. W. Norton and Company , 2014 . Pp. 1024 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 206 BOOK REVIEWS sometimes rather loose notions of "space" deployed...
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Textual Authority in the Vita Nova ’s Nineteenth-Century Editions
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 24–38.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of the libello ’s readership before Boccaccio, see Todorović, “‘Un’operetta.” 3. Boccaccio’s interventions in Dante’s texts were so extensive that Giorgio Petrocchi, one of the major twentieth-century editors of the Divine Comedy , based his edition exclusively on manuscripts from the tradition...
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Text and Document in Dante’s Vita nova
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 10–23.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Dario Del Puppo Abstract This article considers the importance of material philological features of the early manuscripts of Dante’s Vita nova for the work’s critical reception. Over the centuries, editors (most notably Giovanni Boccaccio) have recast textual meaning in the work mainly...
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“Go Little Book”: The Matter of Troy and the Ecology of the Medieval Codex
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 May 2020
... among Conceptual Characters” Bruno Latour the matter of Troy the book of nature Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde Boccaccio’s Filostrato Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 Works Cited [Alan of Lille] de Insulis Alanus . “ De...
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A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 580–583.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Ascoli's illuminating essays on Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto, and Tasso in A Local Habitation and a Name steer "betwixt the extremes of doctrines seemingly opposite" (Essay on Man, "The Design" 20), threading a course through such traditional, but inherently reductive, oppositions as New...
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Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 204–206.
Published: 01 January 2015
...-Anglophone Chauceriana Pugh concludes by wondering just how different "new Chaucer media" really is from medieval textuality and innovation: "Is Brantley Bryant's Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog web site or Baba Brinkman's Rap Canterbury Tales so different from Chaucer's own decision to rewrite Boccaccio...
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Telling Tales Out of School: The Fairy Tale and Italian Academies
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 257–270.
Published: 01 May 2008
... in fatto e in azzione alcuna, propriamente novelle dire non si possono, rna motti e leggiadrie di parole pili tostO."18 He urges the Intronati to eschew these matti, surmising that Boccaccio included this type of tale in his masterpiece because he was constrained by his model, the thirteenth-century...
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The Literary Fairy Tale of Giovan Francesco Straparola
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 281–296.
Published: 01 May 2008
... narrative scope characterising the Piacevoli notti is both a distinctive mark "della galassia di tipologie e forme narrative che connota la narrativa dopo Boccaccio" and, most of all, "del disagio del narrare novelle regolari (in senso boccacciano)"4 1. See G. Mazzacurati, La narrativa di Giovan Francesco...
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Painting (and Writing) over Dante
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 158–180.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Nova in the fourteenth century to its various editorial configurations in print, from the 1576 editio princeps ( Vita Nuova di Dante Alighieri [Florence: Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1576]), printed together with the fifteen canzoni distese established by Boccaccio and Boccaccio’s Vita di Dante...
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Los Trionfi de Petrarca comentados en catalán: Una edición de los manuscritos 534 de la Biblioteca Nacional de París y del Ateneu de Barcelona
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 579–580.
Published: 01 May 2012
... illuminating essays on Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto, and Tasso in A Local Habitation and a Name steer "betwixt the extremes of doctrines seemingly opposite" (Essay on Man, "The Design" 20), threading a course through such traditional, but inherently reductive, oppositions as New Criticism and New...
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Women Subdued: The Abjectification and Purification of Female Characters in Perrault’s Tales
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 211–226.
Published: 01 May 2008
... that relegates women to subservient, domestic roles in the family and society. Wifely Obedience As a story used to "defend" women, the very choice of "Griselidis" is telling. Originally published as "Griselda" in Boccaccio's Decameron, Francesco Petrarca produced a Latin version of the tale entitled "Griseldis...
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“They Were Fated to Meet”: James Joyce and Giuseppe Ungaretti
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Romanic Review (2025) 116 (1): 23–39.
Published: 01 May 2025
... of Guillem de Cabestaing. The latter inspired the third chapter of Dante’s Vita nuova , the fourth day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron , and, later, Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir . Clearly, the romance tradition played a vital role in the transmission of this myth or legend and directly influenced...
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The Monstrous New Art: Divided Forms in the Late Medieval Motet
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 193–195.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., Ugolino Boniscambi of Montegiorgio, Boccaccio, Guillaume de Deguileville and Philippe de Mezieres. The final section of the chapter is on Machaut and Gower's responses to the dream. A final chapter, "Ars Nova and Division," turns to types of formal hybridity that do not coincide with the monstrous...
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Guido da Montefeltro and the Tyrants of Romagna in Inferno 27
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 97–119.
Published: 01 May 2021
...]). A generation after Dante, Boccaccio produced a biographical narrative of Dante’s journey as an exile, and included Guido Guerra’s relative Guido Salvatico among a list of patrons: “Egli . . . tornato da Verona (dove nel primo fuggire a messer Alberto della Scala [1301] n’era ito dal quale benignamente n’era...
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Le Gouvert d’humanité
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 583–585.
Published: 01 May 2012
... earlier in this collection (itself, as was no doubt intended, an instantiation of Polybian anakyclosis), Ascoli brings to light the genealogical-"historical"-relation between the Clizia and its literary precursors in Boccaccio and Ariosto, the process of cultural conquest and appropriation that mirrors...
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“All Ellipses in Quotations Are His”
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 253–256.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., Structuralist Poetics (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975) 67. "ALL ELLIPSES IN QUOTATIONS ARE HIS" 255 "Caterina, I implore you not to let me die of love for you." "Heaven grant," she promptly replied, "that you do not allow me to die first for love of yoU."2 Caterina, like most of Boccaccio's women, just...
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Books Received for 2008
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 409–413.
Published: 01 May 2008
... l'aureole: royaute terreste et chevalerie celestielle dans la legende arthurienne (Xlle-Xllle siecles). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2007. Gittes, Tobias Foster. Boccaccio~s Naked Muse: Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoetic Imagination. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Gjerden, Jorunn Svensen...
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Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 277–280.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of Translation scandals are considered in chapter 4, the first of Part II, Language Politics. Bernat Metge's Lo Somni ("The Dream") (c. 1399) is analyzed first. A dream vision, the main sources of which are Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae and Boccaccio's Corbaccio. Lo Somni is considered an example...
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Before Contes du Temps passé (1697): Charles Perrault’s “Grisélidis” (1691), “Souhaits Ridicules” (1693), and “Peau d’Asne” (1694)
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 175–189.
Published: 01 May 2008
... did his homework before he began his version of this painful story. He ascertained that Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 ?-1375) had composed it as the hundredth, and final, story of his Decameron (1353), and he learned that Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) had subsequently translated it into Latin, although...
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Books Received for 2013–2014
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 419–423.
Published: 01 May 2014
... poiein, agnose et reconnaissance: Seize etudes sur La poesie franfaise et francophone contemporaine. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. Trans. Wayne A. Rebhorn. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. Bontempelli, Massimo. Watching the Moon and Other Plays. Trans. Patricia...
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