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Book SynopsisWhen originally published in 1995, the volume represented a major, new departure from the normal sort of scholarship on Boccaccio's masterpiece, and its unique approach and contents are still valid and valuable today. The seventeen original essays in the volume focus on providing a comprehensive view of the Decameron through the analysis of particular aspects, particular problem areas in the reading and interpretation of the work. Each essay offers a critical window on a defined topic (indicated by the headwords), and, when taken together, these individual essays intersect with, supplement, and reinforce one another, thus emphasizing the harmonious nature of the work as a whole and the importance of examining it through a variety of lenses. The newness of the volume also consists in its introduction of innovative exegetical approaches and the identification of previously unidentified sources and influences. While not providing an orderly reading of the Decameron as a more traditional s
Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition
—by Christopher Kleinhenz
Foreword
—by Pier Massimo Forni and Renzo Bragantini
1. Architecture
—by Franco Fido
2. Author / Narrators
—by Michelangelo Picone
3. Action
—by Eduardo Saccone
4. Communication
—by Francesco Bruni
5. Dialogue
—by Renzo Bragantini
6. Philogyny / Misogyny
—by Claude Cazalé Bérard
7. Sources
—by Costanzo Di Girolamo and Charmaine Lee
8. Irony / Parody
—by Carlo Delcorno
9. Language
—by Alfredo Stussi
10. Memory
—by Giuseppe Velli
11. Morals
—by Victoria Kirkham
12. Representation
—by Giancarlo Mazzacurati
13. Reality / Truth
—by Pier Massimo Forni
14. Rhetoric
—by Andrea Battistini
15. Laughter
—by Giulio Savelli
16. The Sacred
—by Paolo Valesio
17. On the History of the Text of the
Decameron —by Vittore Branca
With an Update on the History of the Text
—by Renzo Bragantini
18. Boccaccio and the
Decameron in North-American Criticism
—by Christopher Kleinhenz
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