Boccaccios Decameron : rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the lyric tradition /

Boccaccios Decameron : rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the lyric tradition /

This study develops a new interpretation of 'The Decameron', Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, which has found new popularity in the wake of COVID. Dino S. Cervigni offers an inclusive and novel reading of the collection, theorizing that the first ninety tales offer a parodic rewritin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cervigni, Dino S (Author), Cervigni, Dino S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval Renaissance Studies, 2021
Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2021
Series:Medieval Renaissance Texts Studies (Series) ; v. 548
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 548
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) v. 548
Subjects:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375 > Decamerone
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375 > Decamerone.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375 > Decamerone. > ^A403711
Decamerone (Boccaccio, Giovanni)
Italian fiction > History and criticism
Middle Ages in literature
Plague in literature
Virtues in literature
Critiques littéraires
Literary criticism
Literature
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The All-Encompassing Discourse : Topoi of the Poet, Women, and Critics
  • The Brigata's Overarching Tale : Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages
  • The Decameron's Ballads and Emilia's Song : "I have such desire for my own beauty" ('Io son sì vaga delta mia bellezza." Dec. 1)
  • Pampìnea's "What woman will sing if I myself do not?" (Qual donna canterà, s'i'non cant'io?" Dec. 2)
  • Lauretta's "No woman without consolation" ("Niuna sconsolata." Dec. 3)
  • Filostrato's Desperate Song : "Weeping, I show" ("Lagrimando dimostro." Dec. 4)
  • Dioneo in Love's Chains : The Erotic Storyteller vs. the Pathetic Lover
  • Love, War, and Servitude in Elissa's Ballad (Dec. 6)
  • Filomena's Unhappy Love : "Ah, my wretched life!" ("Deh lassa la mia vita!" Dec. 7)
  • Panfilo's Erotic Song : "So great, O Love, is the good" ("Tanto è, Amore, il bene." Dec. 8)
  • Neifile's Distant Beloved : "A young girl am I" ('To mi son giovinetta." Dec. 9)
  • Making Amends and Behaving Magnificently : Dec. 10's Secular Redemption
  • Fiammetta's Desperate Ballad (Dec. 10) : Concluding All Lyric Singing
  • The Decameron's Precarious Centers, the Author's Story, His Open-ended Conclusion
  • Appendix: The Narrator as Moral Commentator : Humor, Humorous Tales, and Humorous Storytellers

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