...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...

... by Ascoli's suggestion, in chapter 2, that his reading of Boccaccio's Decameron in Mimesis is as blind as it is brilliant. What Auerbach did not understand is that his tendency to view Boccaccio's secular "realism" against the backdrop of an oppressive medievalism was itself shaped by Boccaccio, whose...

... in the manner of the Decameron, exempla, fables, twenty-three translations from the Latin Novellae of Girolamo Morlini,2 and two vernacular novelle (in the bergamasco and in the pavano). Finally, all nights are opened by lines of verse: madrigali, canzoni, stanzas; and each tale is closed by an erotic enigma.3...

... is regrettable, although apparently one was commissioned. Despite these hesitations, the volume is an excellent compendium of recent work on Virgil in sixteenth-century France, full of much impressive, first-rate analysis. (JAMES HELGESON, University of Nottingham) Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron. Trans. Wayne...

... titles in the library seem to suppress: fiction is fiction. Somewhat fast and a fairly good liar. I blush (not so much) as the critical attempts on literature around call number PN 3335. R5 1990 echo Riccardio's attempt on Caterina in the fourth story of the fifth day of the Decameron: 1. Jonathan Culler...

... the Decameron while the other players are assigned the name of a character or object from the tale. Whenever a character or object is mentioned during the telling of the tale the player assigned that identity must jump up and exclaim, "Avete fatto bene, gran merce a voi Telling tales is considered to be a game...

... 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...

... nouvelles The Project of Marguerite's Unfinished Decameron," Critical Tales: New Studies of the Heptameron and Early Modern Culture, ed. John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993) 241-62. 5. For more on confession, see Mary McKinley, "Telling Secrets...

... 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...

... in the circulation of the Vita Nova— with its implied questioning of Dante’s authorship—happens with Giovanni Boccaccio. Boccaccio is primarily known as the author of one of the most famous short story collections ever written, the Decameron (completed ca. 1349–51). But to material philologists, paleographers...

... translation of the Vita nuova (Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1973), he understands Beatrice only to eat of the heart, so he stresses the fragmentary, incomplete nature of the act. See also Doueihi's discussion of the eaten heart in Boccaccio's Decameron (IV.1 and IV.9), pp. 48-56, and compare...

... 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...

... from Chretien de Troyes to Cervantes, eds. Kevin et Marina Brownlee, Hanover, UP of New England, 1985, p.135-154. Mais il en parle, quinze ans apres. 20. Tzvetan Todorov, Grammaire du Decameron, The Hague, Paris, Mouton, 1969 (paru en 1970). 21. Romanic Review, 64.1, 1973, p. 5-15. JACQUELINE...

... to whom he dedicates his Decameron will find their own utility and pleasure. It is this attitude that conditions his copies of the Vita nova . It may be argued that one might arrive at the same conclusions without the aid of material philology, by virtue of textual variants alone. But to do so...

... in the frame narratives of the Decameron or the Heptameron as examples of the social cohesion in question. 6. It would appear that aristocratic writers felt threatened by the rising political and economic power of the bourgeoisie, a phenomenon due both to Louis XIV's appointment of bourgeois ministers...

... donné qu elle exprime également ce qu autrefois on appelait « la vision du monde de l auteur ». Pour des écrivains comme Boccace, dont le Décaméron rassemble un très g­ rand nombre d histoires bien classifiées selon leur sujet, les 2. Honoré de Balzac, uvres diverses, II, édition de Pierre-­Georges...

... publication du Tiers Livre, Marguerite etait la cour de France. C'est pen- dant ce sejour qu'elle a lu, peut-etre en version inedite, une reuvre qu'elle avait commandee et qui, comme Ie Tiers Livre, lui etait dediee: la traduction par Antoine Le Ma<;on du Decameron de Boccacce (paru en 1545 avec un privilege...

... . Citton Yves . “ Fictional Attachments and Literary Weavings in the Anthropocene. ” New Literary History 47 , nos. 2 – 3 ( 2016 ): 309–29. Cursi Marco . “ Authorial Strategies and Manuscript Tradition: Boccaccio and the Decameron’ s Early Diffusion .” Mediaevalia 34 ( 2013 ): 87...

...://catalogobiflow.vedph.it/work/?id=23 . Pace Matteo . “ L’amore di Cimone: Tradizione medica e memoria cavalcantiana in Decameron V 1 .” Studi sul Boccaccio , no. 44 ( 2016 ): 251 – 75 . Pace Matteo . “ Ut animalium pictura : Aristotle’s Heart in the Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini .” Traditio...

... s'embrase, a l'instar du Zoon de Boccace dans Le Decameron. La Fontaine, avant Perrault, etait deja passe par la: sous Ie pseudonyme d'Acante, il contait dans Le Songe de Vaux qu'il etait tombe comme en arret devant Aminte, qu'il courtisait en amoureux transi, rencontree endormie au pied d'un arbre, au...