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Book SynopsisA Boccaccian Renaissance brings together internationally recognized scholars to reveal Boccaccio’s impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe.
Trade Review“This is a collection of strong essays by leading experts in the field that break new ground in our understanding of the diverse reworkings of Boccaccio’s works in the Renaissance and beyond, both in Italy and in Europe. These contributions are independently rigorous and original works. The book will be useful to readers in a variety of fields in studies of medieval and Renaissance Italian and European traditions and beyond. I agree wholeheartedly with the editors that the chapters ‘leave signs of how much work still needs to be done and from what perspective that work must begin.'" —Kristina M. Olson, George Mason University
"Giovanni Boccaccio’s presence as it radiates through time and space is captured and distilled in this elegantly conceived volume. Martin Eisner and David Lummus have gathered and framed twelve distinguished essays on the 'Renaissance Boccaccio'; together they offer a compelling reexamination of the impact of this most generous of Italy’s tre corone." —Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University
“The book enhances in a number of ways our knowledge of Boccaccio’s legacy in the Renaissance, particularly in the area of the history of the book, but also Boccaccio’s significance as a political thinker, his obsession with the pastoral, his role in the birth of Renaissance comedy, and new aspects of his influence in France, Spain, and England. The scholarship is very sound, as most contributors are acknowledged leaders in their fields.” —Martin McLaughlin, University of Oxford
"A Boccaccian Renaissance opens a window on various aspects of Boccaccio studies and provides insights into literary and cultural trends across centuries, countries, and languages, which will certainly be of great interest to scholars of the early modern period." —Sixteenth Century Journal
Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Finding the Renaissance Boccaccio” by Martin Eisner and David Lummus
Part 1. Boccaccio and Renaissance Humanism
1. “Boccaccio and the Political Thought of Renaissance Humanism” by James Hankins
2. “Boccaccio’s Humanist Brigata: Reading the Decameron in the Quattrocento” by Timothy Kircher
Part 2. Framing the Renaissance Boccaccio
3. “Poets Prefer Company: Boccaccio’s Portraits and the Three Crowns of Florence” by Victoria Kirkham
4. “Under the Cover of a Green-Hued Book: Boccaccio’s Pastoral Project” by Jonathan Combs-Schilling
5. “Squarzafico’s Vita di Boccaccio and Early Modern Print Culture: A New Model for the Study of Biography” by Rhiannon Daniels
6. “Vernacularizing the Latin Boccaccio In Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy: Notes on Niccolò Liburnio’s Delli Monti, Selve, Boschi and Giuseppe Betussi’s Genealogia De Gli Dei” by Simon Gilson
Part 3. Boccaccio in Renaissance Italy
7. “Along the Path of Disaster: The Decameron and Bembo's Prose” by Michael Sherberg
8. “‘For instruction and benefit’: The Renaissance Boccaccio as Model of Language and Life” by Brian Richardson
9. “De nuptiis comoediae et novellae: Italian Comedy Receives Boccaccio’s Decameron (1486-1533)” by Ronald L. Martinez
Part 4. Boccaccio in Renaissance Europe
10. “Language, Nation, Translation: When Boccaccio’s Unnatural Prose Becomes ‘le commun langaige Francoys’” by Marc Schachter
11. “Boccaccio in the Spanish Renaissance: Juan de Flores’s Grimalte y Gradisa” by Ignacio Navarrete
12. “Regendering Griselda on the London Stage” by Janet Levarie Smarr
