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Author : Olivia Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-31
Boccaccio And Exemplary Literature written by Olivia Holmes and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-31 with History categories.
Olivia Holmes explores the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents against the backdrop of medieval religion and didacticism.
Boccaccio And Exemplary Literature
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Author : Olivia Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-31
Boccaccio And Exemplary Literature written by Olivia Holmes and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio's sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative collections of Islamicate origin, sermon-stories and saints' lives, and compilations of historical anecdotes. Examining the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents in relation to medieval notions of narrative exemplarity, the study also considers how they intersect with current critical assertions of fiction's power to develop empathy and emotional intelligence. Holmes argues that Boccaccio provides readers with the opportunity to exercise both what the ancients called 'Ethics,' and our contemporaries call 'Theory of Mind.' This account of a vast tradition of tale collections and its provocative analysis of their workings will appeal to scholars of Italian literature and medieval studies, as well as to readers interested in evolutionary understandings of storytelling.
Boccaccio And The Invention Of Italian Literature
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Author : Martin Eisner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-12
Boccaccio And The Invention Of Italian Literature written by Martin Eisner and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-12 with History categories.
This book examines Boccaccio's pivotal role in legitimizing the vernacular literature of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti through argument, narrative and transcription.
Boccaccio Decameron
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Author : David Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1991-08-30
Boccaccio Decameron written by David Wallace and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Boccaccio's innovative text, ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new and familiar conflicts from private and public spheres of life with unprecedented subtlety, urgency and humour. He emphasises the relationship between Decameron and the precocious vitality of Florentine culture in Boccaccio's time. He also discusses gender issues and the influence of the text particularly on Chaucer and the novel.
The Decameron
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Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
language : en
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-28
The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and has been published by Xist Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-28 with Fiction categories.
One Hundred Tales, One Great Masterpiece “To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. ” - Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron The Black Death is upon Europe and the beautiful city of Florence. How can you escape it one must wonder? The 14th-century Italian writer came up with a solution in his masterpiece, The Decameron: story-telling. He gathered seven young women and three young men in a remote villa outside the city with one sole purpose: to tell 100 unique stories about humanity’s great fortunes and misfortunes. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
The Cambridge Companion To Boccaccio
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Author : Guyda Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-09
The Cambridge Companion To Boccaccio written by Guyda Armstrong and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
A major re-evaluation of Boccaccio's status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.
De Mulieribus Claris
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Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2001
De Mulieribus Claris written by Giovanni Boccaccio and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. The 106 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries. In the hands of a master storyteller, these brief biographies afford a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Famous Women, which Boccaccio continued to revise and expand until the end of his life, became one of the most popular works in the last age of the manuscript book, and had a signal influence on many literary works, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Castiglione's Courtier. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.
Boccaccio And The Consolation Of Literature
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Author : Gur Zak
language : en
Publisher: Studies and Texts
Release Date : 2022-08-15
Boccaccio And The Consolation Of Literature written by Gur Zak and has been published by Studies and Texts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with History categories.
This volume is the first sustained study of Boccaccio's consoling fictions as well as his reflections on the way literature can, and should, offer solace. It analyzes the affective, exemplary, and cognitive modes of consolation that mark the poet's works; but it also underlines the critical dialogue with the ancient and medieval traditions Boccaccio inherits. The limits of Stoic, Boethian, and Dantesque views of consolation are laid bare as Boccaccio fashions a new vision of consolatio for the later Middle Ages.
The World At Play In Boccaccio S Decameron
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Author : Giuseppe Mazzotta
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
The World At Play In Boccaccio S Decameron written by Giuseppe Mazzotta and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Decameron Of Boccaccio
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Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Decameron Of Boccaccio written by Giovanni Boccaccio and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.