Medievalists.net » Boccaccio http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Writing the Antithesis of María of Aragón: Alvaro de Luna’s Rendering of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/22/writing-antithesis-maria-aragon-alvaro-de-lunas-rendering-giovanni-boccaccios-de-mulieribus-claris/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/22/writing-antithesis-maria-aragon-alvaro-de-lunas-rendering-giovanni-boccaccios-de-mulieribus-claris/#comments Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:00:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47799 Of the many works that form the canon of the debate on women in the fifteenth century, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula, there is a text that often omitted. This lesser known text was written by one of the most notorious figures in Spanish history: don Alvaro de Luna.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/22/writing-antithesis-maria-aragon-alvaro-de-lunas-rendering-giovanni-boccaccios-de-mulieribus-claris/feed/ 0 Rare manuscript of Boccaccio’s work discovered in England http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/rare-manuscript-of-boccaccios-work-discovered-in-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/rare-manuscript-of-boccaccios-work-discovered-in-england/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:12:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42204 A manuscript dating back to the year 1400 has been discovered at the University of Manchester's John Rylands Library - it contains French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's work ‘De casibus virorum illustrium’ (On the Fates of Famous Men).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/rare-manuscript-of-boccaccios-work-discovered-in-england/feed/ 0 Happy 700th Birthday Boccaccio! Exhibition and conference mark anniversary of medieval author http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/10/happy-700th-birthday-boccaccio-exhibition-and-conference-mark-anniversary-of-medieval-author/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/10/happy-700th-birthday-boccaccio-exhibition-and-conference-mark-anniversary-of-medieval-author/#comments Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:01:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42047 Exhibit and conference are among the events marking the 700th birthday of one of the medieval world’s greatest writers, credited with establishing the European storytelling traditions we know today.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/10/happy-700th-birthday-boccaccio-exhibition-and-conference-mark-anniversary-of-medieval-author/feed/ 0 Oure First Moder: Eve as representative and representation in Medieval Thought http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/05/oure-first-moder-eve-as-representative-and-representation-in-medieval-thought/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/05/oure-first-moder-eve-as-representative-and-representation-in-medieval-thought/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2013 16:07:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41942 When the noted fourteenth-century writer Giovanni Boccaccio set out to write his book Concerning Famous Women, he began with Eve, ‘our first mother’.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/05/oure-first-moder-eve-as-representative-and-representation-in-medieval-thought/feed/ 0 The Publisher Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, Female Readers, and the Debate about Women in Sixteenth-Century Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/14/the-publisher-gabriel-giolito-de-ferrari-female-readers-and-the-debate-about-women-in-sixteenth-century-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/14/the-publisher-gabriel-giolito-de-ferrari-female-readers-and-the-debate-about-women-in-sixteenth-century-italy/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:14:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32764 Drawing on recent work on the social history of the book and the politics of reading, this essay considers the texts under question as social products, whose meaning is not just determined by the author’s initial intentions, but is further shaped in the process of production, dissemination, and reception as a result of negotiation among several parties in a given historical moment.

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