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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 112–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... chronicle and of a set of vernacular poems situating his writerly activity within a very specific corporeal context: he writes both poetry and chronicle after cataracts have so impaired his vision that he can no longer carry out his administrative duties at the abbey of Saint-Martin—and, remarkably, he...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Marisa Galvez Abstract While medieval literature offers many models of solitary thinking, vernacular lyric confronts the problem of solitude in a unique mode, grappling and coping with this phenomenon that gives shape and texture to ambivalence and vexation. Comparing the event of lyric...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 48–65.
Published: 01 May 2020
... exile in their vernacular writings. It examines how the two authors reflect on the pluralities of language and community that connect them to readerships both at home and in exile, focusing especially on Brunetto’s Rettorica and Dante’s Convivio . The essay investigates Brunetto’s rhetorical doctrine...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 87–111.
Published: 01 May 2022
... into vernacular languages. The precepts of this genre entered into the literary culture of early modern France primarily through the avenue of satire, in which characters were defined by the food they ate and by other aspects of the Galenic regimen. Because of its association with treatises on the education...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 65–86.
Published: 01 May 2022
... medical philosophy. Guinizzelli’s correspondence between love and nobility is nurtured by Avicenna’s increasingly popular doctrine of forma specifica , which structures the reasoning and the examples of the vernacular poem. Guinizzelli therefore frames the idea of nobility in the heart of the lover...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 37–64.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Joseph R. Johnson Abstract What is the physician’s species? In the vernacular beast fables and so-called beast epics that suddenly flourished in the twelfth century, medical (mal)practice forms a central concern. Nearly a tenth of the stories in Marie de France’s Aesopian fable collection deal...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 151–172.
Published: 01 May 2020
... on vernacular accounts of Mary’s Assumption, it argues that reprise leads to violent as well as loving conversions; indeed, violence can proceed in the name of love. The essay concludes that composition, reprise, and conversion come together in ways that trouble late medieval accounts of the Assumption...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 309–330.
Published: 01 May 2006
..., in which French is the vernacular cultural "father" to be gotten out of the way. In 1895, Henri Hauvette saw the rise of Italian literature in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as a fortunate continuation of French literature at the start of what he called "notre decadence." The culture in decadence...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 579–580.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and Literatures, 2009. Pp. 780. First accounts of Petrarch's "reputaci6" in the Crown of Aragon date from almost the same time as the first extant Iberian copies of his Latin worksthe late fourteenth century. By that time, Petrarch's Latin writings also were beginning to be adapted in the Iberian vernaculars...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 105–110.
Published: 01 January 2010
... My brief intervention will suggest that one way to think about "Romance languages" and the often vexed relationships among them is to invoke translation: particularly the history of translation, and particularly a history that focuses on the moment when the vernaculars as we now know them finally...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to Virgil with Boccaccio’s list of auctores , Chaucer substitutes Homer for Boccaccio’s Dante—the only vernacular poet in Boccaccio’s list—in order to construct a list of exclusively Latin poets. As we have seen, the name Homer was associated with the Latin text of the Ilias Latina , and Chaucer displays...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 317–320.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and in three different Romance vernaculars, Castilian, Portuguese, and Catalan. The first three chapters of the study make up a more theoretical section, mostly but not exclusively dedicated to political and theological treatises (“Friendship and Pleasure”). The second, longer part of the book (“Compassion...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., a research tool through which it is possible to query the complete corpus of Dante’s vernacular and Latin works lemmatized and endowed with morphological annotation and, in the case of the Comedy , the Convivio , and the Rime , also with syntactic annotation. The first prototype of this resource...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 24–38.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the author, the compiler, the scribe, and the commentator) in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century vernacular production renders comparison with other contemporary works impossible and thus leaves scholars without any specific contemporary frame of reference that might help us better contextualize how scribes...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 204–206.
Published: 01 January 2015
.... An index of authors and their writings is provided; a more compendious index would have been appreciated. BOOK REVIEWS 2°5 Particular standouts include Philip Ford's piece on Virgil reception in Neo-Latin and vernacular humanist circles. Ford's comments about Virgil as the national poet of transnational...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 10–23.
Published: 01 May 2021
... by the relatively unknown poet, Caccia da Castello, followed by other poems by Dante, not included in the Vita nova (cc. 25–32); and a translation in vernacular Italian of the previously mentioned Latin text about dreams (cc. 32–34). The Vita nova occupies the last two quires of Martelli 12, the fifth...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (1): 119–121.
Published: 01 January 2005
... is to remind scholars of the generic hybridity and structural disjunction that characterizes vernacular narrative in the thirteenth century, features that can escape notice given the tendency to focus on the Roman de La Rose of Guillaume de Lorris revised by Jean de Meun. Moreover, the majority of lyric poems...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 253–272.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of the few native Lyonnais involved in the project, this collection of neo-Latin and French verse offered him the opportunity to build on recent literary successes and establish himself as the superlative vernacular poet in Lyon (Clement 31-34; Saulnier, "La mort" 80-86). To this end, Sceve composed his 228...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 109–127.
Published: 01 January 2011
... typical pattern, established first with Latin stanzaic verse, but readily applied to vernacular compositions (Parkes 98). In both patterns, the capital letters are confined to the role of marking basic formal units of the poem. This use of larger litterae notabiliores ("more noticeable letters...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (4): 375–395.
Published: 01 November 2000
... who gave voice to pro-French sentiment. A prominent member of the Pleiade, he was also the author of its famous manifesto, the Deffence et illustration de la langue fran~oyse, in which he defended the French language as being the equal of other vernaculars such as Italian and sought to inaugurate...
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