Reader's Guide to Articles in English

General Considerations

  • Structure
    • Barolini, Teodolinda. "The Wheel of the Decameron." Romance Philology 36:4 (1983): 521-39. [PC1 .R6]
    • Ferrante, Joan M. "Narrative Patterns in the Decameron." Romance Philology 31 (1978): 585-604. [PC1 .R6]
    • Irwin, Bonnie D. "What's in a Frame? The Medieval Textualization of Traditional Storytelling." Oral Tradition 10:1 (1995): 27-53. [GR72 .O68]
    • Potter, Joy Hambuechen. "Boccaccio as Illusionist: The Plays of Frames in the Decameron." The Humanities Association Review 26 (1975): 327-45. [AP H89]
  • The Brigata
    • Ferrante, Joan M. "The Frame Characters of the Decameron: A Progression of Virtues." Romance Philology 19 (1965): 212-226. [PC1 .R6]
    • Janssens, Marcel. "The Internal Reception of the Stories within the Decameron." in Gilbert Tournoy et al., eds. Boccaccio in Europe: Proceedings of the Boccaccio Conference. Louvain: Leuven UP, 1977. 135-148. [PQ4277 .A23 1975]
    • Kirkham, Victoria. "An Allegorically Tempered Decameron." Italica 62:1 (1985): 1-23. [PC1001 .I8]
  • Books Presenting Valuable General Background Information
    • Dombroski, Robert S. (ed.), Critical Perspectives on the Decameron. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1972. [PQ4287 .D6]
    • Ó Cuilleanáin, Cormac. Religion and the Clergy in Boccaccio's Decameron. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1984. [ROCK RESRV PQ4293.P4 O28x 1984 c.2]
    • Wallace, David. Decameron. Cambridge Landmarks of World Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Day One

  • Bernardo, Aldo S. "The Plague as Key to Meaning in Boccaccio's Decameron." in The Black Death: The Impact of the Fourteenth-Century Plague. Daniel Williman, ed. Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval & Early Renaissance Studies, 1982. 39-64. [RC171 .S8 1977]
  • Gibaldi, Joseph. "The Decameron Cornice and the Responses to the Disintegration of Civilization." Kentucky Romance Quarterly 24 (1977): 349-57. [1-size P1 .K4]
  • Kleinhenz, Christopher. "Stylistic Gravity: Language and Prose Rhythms in Decameron I,4." The Humanities Association Review 26 (1975): 289-99. [AP H89]
  • Marcus, Millicent. "Ser Ciappelletto or 'Le Saint Noir': A Comic Paradox." An Allegory of Form : Literary Self-Consciousness in the Decameron. Saratoga, CA: Anma Libri, 1979. 23-51. [ROCK RESRV PQ4287 .M326]
  • Marcus, Millicent. "Faith's Fiction: A Gloss on the Tale of Melchisedech (Decameron I, 3)." Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 2 (1978-79): 40-55. [PQ4001 .C35]

Day Two

  • Barolini, Teodolinda. "'Le parole son femmine e i fatti sono maschi': Toward a Sexual Poetics of the Decameron (Decameron II, 10)." Studi sul Boccaccio 21 (1993): 175-97. [PQ4277 .A38]
  • Clark, Susan L. and Wasserman, Julian N. "Decameron 2.4: The Journey of the Hero." Mediaevalia 1:2 (1975): 1-16. [CB351 .M42]
  • Ferrante, Joan M. "Politics, Finance and Feminism in Decameron, II, 7." Studi sul Boccaccio 21 (1993): 151-74. [PQ4277 .A38]

Day Three

  • Brownlee, Marina Scordilis. "Wolves and Sheep: Symmetrical Undermining in Day III of the Decameron." Romance Notes 24:3 (1984): 262-266. [PC1 .R57]
  • Cottino-Jones, Marga. "Desire and the Fantastic in the Decameron: The Third Day." Italica 70:1 (1993): 1-18. [PC1001 .I8]
  • Kirkham, Victoria. "Love's Labors Rewarded and Paradise Lost." Romanic Review 72 (1981): 79-93. [PC1 .R7]
  • Marcus, Millicent. "Seduction by Silence: A Gloss on the Tales of Masetto (Decameron III.1) and Alatiel (Decameron II.7)." Philological Quarterly 58 (1979): 1-15. [PB1 .P56]
  • Storey, Harry Wayne. "Parodic Structure in 'Alibech and Rustico': Antecedents and Traditions." Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 5:3 (1982): 163-76. [PQ4001 .C35]
  • Wheelock, James T. S. "The Rhetoric of Polarity in Decameron III,3." Lingua e Stile 9 (1974): 257-74. [P9 .I7 L5]

Day Four

  • Ascoli, Albert Russell. "Boccaccio's Auerbach: Holding the Mirror Up to Mimesis." Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-1992): 377-97. [PQ4277 .A38]
  • Auerbach, Erich. "Frate Alberto." Mimesis. Trask, trans. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1968. 63-74. [PN56 .R3 A83]
  • Faithfull, R. G. "Basic Symbolism in Boccaccio." Lingua e Stile 20:2 (1985): 247-257. [P9 .I7 L5]
  • Potter, Joy Hambuechen. "Woman in the Decameron." in Gian-Paolo Biasin et al., eds. Studies in the Italian Renaissance. Naples: Soc. Ed. Napoletana, 1985. 87-103. [PQ4075 .S78 1985]
  • Usher, Jonathan. "Narrative and Descriptive Sequences in the Novella of Lisabetta and the Pot of Basil (Decameron, IV.5)." Italian Studies 38 (1983): 56-69. [PQ4001 .I8]

Day Five

  • Booth, Wyane. "Telling and Showing in Boccaccio's Decameron. in Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella. The Decameron: a New Translation: 21 Novelle, Contemporary Reactions, Modern Criticism. NY: Norton, 1977. 243-49. [PQ4272 .E5 A3 1977]
  • Scaglione, Aldo. "Nature and Love in Boccaccio's Decameron." in Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella. The Decameron: a New Translation: 21 Novelle, Contemporary Reactions, Modern Criticism. NY: Norton, 1977. 230-43. [PQ4272 .E5 A3 1977]
  • Sherberg, Michael. "The Patriarch's Pleasure and the Frametale Crisis: Decameron IV-V." Romance Quarterly 38:2 (1991): 227-38. [1-size P1 .K4]
  • Sinicropi, Giovanni. "Chastity and Love in the Decameron." in Robert R. Edwards et al., eds. The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World. Albany: State U of New York P, 1991. 104-20. [HQ513 .O43 1991]
  • Vasvari, Louise O. "L'usignuolo in gabbia: Popular Tradition and Pornographic Parody in the Decameron." Forum Italicum 28:2 (1994): 224-51. [PC1001 .F65]

Day Six

  • Durling, Robert. "Boccaccio on Interpretation: Guido's Escape (Decameron VI, 9)." Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Essays in Honor of Charles S. Singleton. Binghamton, N.Y.: State University of New York at Binghamton, 1983. 273-304. [PQ4065 .D36 1983]
  • Fido, Franco. "Boccaccio's 'Ars Narrandi' in the Sixth Day of the Decameron." in Giose Rimanelli et al. Italian Literature, Roots and Branches: Essays in Honor of Thomas Goddard Bergin. New Haven: Yale UP, 1976. 225-42. [PQ4004 .B46]
  • Hollander, Robert. "'Utilità' in Boccaccio's Decameron." Studi sul Boccaccio 15 (1985-1986): 215-33. [PQ4277 .A38]
  • Mazzotta, Giuseppe. "The Decameron: The Marginality of Literature." University of Toronto Quarterly 42 (1972): 64-81. [AP Un349]
  • Usher, Jonathan. "Frate Cipolla's Ars Praedicandi or a 'recit du discours' in Boccaccio." The Modern Language Review, 1993 Apr, 88:2, 321-36. [PB1 .M66]
  • Watson, Paul F. "On Seeing Guido Cavalcanti and the Houses of the Dead." Studi sul Boccaccio, 1989, 18, 301-318. [PQ4277 .A38]

Day Seven

  • Bonadeo, Alfredo. "Marriage and Adultery in the Decameron." Philological Quarterly 60:3 (1981): 287-303. [PB1 .P56]
  • Cottino-Jones, Marga. "Magic and Superstition in Boccaccio's Decameron." Italian Quarterly 18 (1975): 5-32. [1-size PQ4001 .I77]
  • Grossvogel, Steven M. "Frate Rinaldo's Paternoster to Saint Ambrose (Decameron VII.3)." Studi sul Boccaccio 13 (1981-1982): 161-167. [PQ4277 .A38]
  • Smarr, Janet Levarie. "Rewriting One's Precursors: Notes on the Decameron." Mediaevalia 5 (1979): 205-16. [CB351 .M42]

Day Eight

  • Durling, Robert M. "A Long Day in The Sun: Decameron 8.7." in Peter Erickson, ed. Shakespeare's "Rough Magic": Renaissance Essays in Honor of C. L. Barber. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1985. 269-75 [PR2976 .S343 1985]
  • Gerlach, John. "The Decameron: Closure, Cruelty, and Recreation - Medieval and Modern." Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 11:37 (1988): 113-27. [PQ4001 .C35]
  • Kirkham, Victoria. "Painters at Play on the Judgment Day (Dec. viii, 9)." Studi sul Boccaccio 14 (1983-1984): 256-77. [PQ4277 .A38]
  • Marcus, Millicent. "Misogyny as Misreading: A Gloss on Decameron VIII, 7." Stanford Italian Review 4:1 (1984): 23-40. [PQ4001 .S73]
  • Mazzotta, Giuseppe. "Games of Laughter in the Decameron." Romanic Review 69 (1978): 115-31. [PC1 .R7]
  • Nelson, John Charles. "Love and Sex in the Decameron." in Edward P. Mahoney, Philosophy and Humanism: Renaissance Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller. New York: Columbia UP, 1976. 339-51 [B778 .P45]

Day Nine

  • Cottino-Jones, Marga. "The City/Country Conflict in the Decameron." Studi sul Boccaccio 8 (1974): 147-84. [PQ4277 .A38]
  • Watson, Paul F. "The Cement of Fiction: Giovanni Boccaccio and the Painters of Florence." Modern Language Notes 99:1 (1984): 43-64. [1-size PB1 .M6]
  • Mulryan, John. "The Three Images of Venus: Boccaccio's Theory of Love in the Genealogy of the Gods and His Aesthetic Vision of Love in the Decameron." Romance Notes 19 (1979): 388-94. [PC1 .R57]

Day Ten

  • Allen, Shirley S. "The Griselda Tale and the Portrayal of Women in the Decameron," Philological Quarterly 56 (1977): 1-13. [PB1 .P56]
  • Blackbourn, Barbara L. "The Eighth Story of the Tenth Day of Boccaccio's Decameron: An Example of Rhetoric or a Rhetorical Example?" Italian Quarterly, 27:106 (1986): 5-13. [1-size PQ4001 .I77]
  • Haines, Charles. "Patient Griselda and Matta bestialitade." Quaderni d'Italianistica 6:2 (1985): 233-40. [PQ4001 .Q4x]
  • Hyatte, Reginald. "Reconfiguring Ancient Amicitia Perfecta in the Decameron 10,8." Italian Quarterly 32:125-6 (1995): 27-37. [1-size PQ4001 .I77]
  • Kirkham, Victoria. "The Last Tale in the Decameron." Mediaevalia 12 (1989): 205-23. [CB351 .M42]
  • Needler, Howard I. "Song of a Ravished Nightingale: Attitudes toward Antiquity in Decameron X.8." Literary Review 23 (1980): 502-18. [AP L7137]

(M. P.)

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