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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Boccaccio"”.
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Reading and meaning : the reception of Boccaccio's Teseida, Decameron and De mulieribus claris to 1520
… research carried out on the reception of Boccaccio in medieval and Renaissance Italy has focused on the Decameron to the exclusion of all other works. This thesis puts existing research into context by considering two additional works by Boccaccio alongside the Decameron, and by using an …
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Historicizing Maternity in Boccaccio's Ninfale fiesolano and Decameron
… the representation of maternity in two of Boccaccio's works, the early idyllic poem, the Ninfale fiesolano, and the author's later magnum opus, the Decameron, through readings in the social history of women and the family and medieval medical literature of obstetrics and gynecology. I …
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Sexual Metaphors in the Fifteenth to Sixteenth Century French Farce
… (Aristophanes, Chaucer, the fabliaux, Poggio, Boccaccio, etc.). Due to the volume of material collected, the dissertation alas was limited to those sexual metaphors which form the basis of the plot of one or more plays (sex as medicine, i.e. the giving of a clystere and restraintif; …
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Il commento di Benvenuto da Imola a Valerio Massimo. Edizione critica dell’Expositio
… Benvenuto, on the one hand, and Petrarch and Boccaccio, on the other, in light of quotations and mentions of the two Corone made in the commentary on Valerius Maximus, which are more often implicit than explicit. Finally, we note the complete absence of quotations from Dante and the Commedia …
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Libro de las claras e virtuosas mugeres: A Critical Edition and Study of Alvaro de Luna's 15th Century Castilian Manuscripts
… widely studied De claris mulieribus by Giovanni Boccaccio. Scholars however, have neglected Luna's version for various reasons that are discussed within this dissertation. Libro de las claras e virtuosas mugeres is a significant work because it complements other texts within the genre of defense …
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Interpolated lyric in medieval narrative poetry
… more indirectly, through Chaucer's reading of Boccaccio and Boethius. I thus consider Chaucer's use of Boccaccio's Il Filostrato in the light of Boccaccio's own knowledge of this French tradition from his position in the Angevin court of Naples. In addition, by investigating French translations …
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Il manoscrito inedito delle none rime di laura terracina.
… volgar como Dante, Francesco Petrarca y Giovanni Boccaccio y también los autores napolitanos más importantes del siglo anterior como Iacopo Sannazaro y Pietro Jacopo De Jennaro; y, por supuesto, había leído las obras de los grandes petrarquistas de su época como Pietro Bembo, Bernardo Tasso, Luigi …
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Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Criseydan Conversations 1986-2002 A Narrative Bibliography
Conversations among scholars in the study of Chaucer have been essential in constructing the foundations on which we now stand. However, in light of recent pressures in the very competitive and practical aspects of academic life, the scholarly conversation is often lost amidst the desire to find …