Whose Aristotle? Latinate Knowledge and Vernacular Translation in Medieval Italy
By staging the anxieties connected with the vulgarization of knowledge, the novella seizes upon a phenomenon—vernacular—whose significance to Medieval and Renaissance culture can hardly be overstated.
Chaucer’s Decameron and the Wife of Bath’s Tale: Why Do Literary History?
A possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century, Boccaccio’s Decameron and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, has long tantalized readers because these works share many stories, which are, moreover, placed in similar frames.
Writing the Antithesis of María of Aragón: Alvaro de Luna’s Rendering of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris
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.
Rare manuscript of Boccaccio’s work discovered in England
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).
Happy 700th Birthday Boccaccio! Exhibition and conference mark anniversary of medieval author
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.
Oure First Moder: Eve as representative and representation in Medieval Thought
When the noted fourteenth-century writer Giovanni Boccaccio set out to write his book Concerning Famous Women, he began with Eve, ‘our first mother’.
The Publisher Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, Female Readers, and the Debate about Women in Sixteenth-Century Italy
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.
“Women Make All Things Lose Their Power”: Women’s Knowledge, Men’s Fear in the Decameron and the Corbaccio
“Women Make All Things Lose Their Power”: Women’s Knowledge, Men’s Fear in the Decameron and the Corbaccio By Regina Psaki Heliotropia, Vol.1:1 (2003)…
Boccaccio, Cavalcanti’s Canzone “Donna me prega” and Dino’s Glosses
Boccaccio, Cavalcanti’s Canzone “Donna me prega” and Dino’s Glosses Usher, Jonathan (University of Edinburgh) Heliotropia 2.1 (2004) Abstract The enigmatic, indeed disturbing figure…
A Medieval Gateway to Feminist Education: Christine de Pizan’s Subversive Revision of Boccaccio
A Medieval Gateway to Feminist Education: Christine de Pizan’s Subversive Revision of Boccaccio Kivilcim Yavuz (İSTANBUL BİLGİ UNIVERSITY, TURKEY) Paper given at…
The Cuckold, His Wife, and Her Lover: A Study of Infidelity in the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, the Decameron, and the Libro de buen amor
This dissertation compares representations of women in erotic triangles. I contend that despite the stability implied by the triangular shape, the erotic triangle can be made unstable through women’s language.
The parable of the Three Rings: a revision of its history
The parable of the Three Rings: a revision of its history By Iris Shagrir Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1997)…
AURAL EKPHRASIS AND STATIAN SOUND IN CHAUCER’S TEMPLE OF MARS
AURAL EKPHRASIS AND STATIAN SOUND IN CHAUCER’S TEMPLE OF MARS Leitner, Valerie Ann MA Thesis, University of Florida (2006) Abstract Geoffrey Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale,…
Casting Light on Clandestine Marriage in Il Filostrato
Various studies in recent years have illuminated the almost pandemic nature of clandestine marriage in late-medieval Europe – the Church considered it to be a pernicious social problem,
Boccaccio’s Decameron: A Fictional Effort to Grapple with Chaos
Boccaccio’s Decameron: A Fictional Effort to Grapple with Chaos By Nancy M. Real Published online as part of the Virtual Commons Modules (2006) Introduction:…
The One-Eyed Monk Who Got an Eyeful: A Reading of the Second Tale of the Cent nouvelles nouvelles
This article explores various layers of meaning in a tale from the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, a collection of stories from the fifteenth century loosely modeled on Boccaccio’s Decameron
The Problem with Paganism: Dante and Boccaccio
Lecture – The Problem with Paganism: Dante and Boccacio University of Toronto – Alumni Hall, Room #400 John Marenbon, PhD, Senior Research Fellow,…
Ports of Call: Boccaccio’s Alatiel in the Medieval Mediterranean
Ports of Call: Boccaccio’s Alatiel in the Medieval Mediterranean By Sharon Kinoshita and Jason Jacobs Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Vol. 37:1…
Mediaeval Medicine and Arcite’s Love Sickeness
Mediaeval Medicine and Arcite’s Love Sickeness By M. Ciavolella Florilegium, vol. 1 (1979) Introduction: In The Allegory of Love C. S. Lewis, commenting…