Boccaccio's Decameron : rewriting the Christian Middle Ages /

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Imprint:Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [2013]
©2013
Description:560 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Annali d'italianistica 0741-7527 ; vol. 31, 2013
Annali d'italianistica ; v. 31.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12010206
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Varying Form of Title:Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages
Other authors / contributors:Cervigni, Dino S.
Notes:Cover title.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Decameron's all-encompassing discourse : topoi of the poet, women, and critics / Dino S. Cervigni
  • The Brigata's overarching tale : rewriting the Christian Middle Ages / Dino S. Cervigni
  • Movement, moment, and mission in the opening day of the Decameron / Timothy Kircher
  • The Decameron's ballads & Emilia's happy song / Dino S. Cervigni
  • Decameron 2 : Filomena's rule between fortune and human agency / Francesco Ciabattoni
  • Eroticizing theology in Day Three and the poetics of the Decameron / Martin Eisner
  • The one and the many : the tale of the Brigata and Decameron Day Four / F. Regina Psaki
  • Between two sad love songs : the trials and tribulations of marriage in Decameron 5 / Brandon Essary
  • Day Six of the Decameron : language's polysemy or the importance of being understood / Franziska Meier
  • Decameron 7 : under the sign of Venus / Elsa Filosa
  • Trial by beffa : retributive justice and in-group formation in Day Eight / Olivia Holmes
  • "Dal giogo alleviati" : free servitude and fixed stars in Decameron 9 / Tobias Gittes
  • Making amends and behaving magnificently : Decameron's 10 secular redemption / Dino S. Cervigni
  • Fiammetta's song of jealousy : are the young people still at play? / Dino S. Cervigni
  • Neither hellish nor divine : the Decameron's precarious centers and the author's conclusion / Dino S. Cervigni
  • The novella of Gismonda and Guiscardo in verse : a fifteenth-century incunabulum of Decameron 4.1 / Anne Tordi
  • In memoriam of Gustavo Costa (1930-2012) / Paolo Cherchi.