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American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1986
(through November, 1986)
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BOOKS (EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS):

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Amorosa Visione. Bilingual ed., tr. Robert Hollander, Timothy Hampton, and Margherita Frankel, Intr. Vittore Branca (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1986) pp. xxix + 255.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Filocolo, tr. Donald Cheney with the collaboration of Thomas G. Bergin (New York: Garland Publishing, 1985) pp. xviii + 496.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Filostrato, Ital. text ed. by Vincenzo Pernicone, tr. with an introduction by Robert P. apRoberts and Anna Bruni Seldis (New York, Garland Publishing, 1986) pp. lxxxii + 419.

BOOKS (CRITICAL STUDIES):

Mazzotta, Giuseppe. The World at Play in Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986) pp. xvi + 280.

Smarr, Janet Levarie. Boccaccio and Fiammetta: The Narrator As Lover. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986) pp. 284.

Stewart, Pamela D. Retorica e mimica nel "Decameron" e nella commedia del Cinquecento, Saggi di "Lettere Italiane" XXXV (Firenze: Olschki, 1986) pp. 296.

ARTICLES:

Barilli, Renato. "La retorica nella narrativa del Boccaccio. L'Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta," Quaderni d'italianistica 6.2 (Autunno, 1985): 241-48.

Bernardo, Aldo S. "La peste come chiave narrativa del Decameron," Forum Italicum 19.1 (Spring, 1985): 18-44.

Boucher, Holly Wallace. "Nominalism: The Difference for Chaucer and Boccaccio," Chaucer Review 20.3 (1986): 213-20.

Dean, James. "Chaucer's Troilus, Boccaccio's Filostrato, and the Poetics of Closure," Philological Quarterly 64.2 (Spring, 1985): 175-84.

Farrell, Thomas J. "Medieval Chaucer and the Clerk's Tale," Michigan Academician, 17.1 (Fall, 1984): 89-96.

Forni, Pier Massimo. "Zima sermocinante (Decameron, III, 5)," Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 163, fasc. 521 (1986): 63-74.

Haines, Charles. "Patient Griselda and matta bestialitade," Quaderni d'italianistica 6.2 (Autunno, 1985): 233-40.

Hollander, Robert. "Boccaccio's Dante," Italica 63.3 (Autumn, 1986): 278-89.

Huot, Sylvia. "Poetic Ambiguity and Reader Response in Boccaccio's Amorosa Visione," Modern Philology 83.2 (November, 1985): 109-22.

Hyde, Thomas. "Boccaccio: The Genealogies of Myth," PMLA 100.5 (October, 1985): 737-45.

Kallendorf, Craig. "Boccaccio's Dido and the Rhetorical Criticism of Virgil's Aeneid," Studies in Philology 82.4 (Fall, 1985): 401-15.

Morgan, Gerald. "Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Moral Argument of the Franklin's Tale," Chaucer Review 20.4 (1986): 285-306.

Morse, Charlotte C. "The Exemplary Griselda," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985): 51-86.

Sowell, Madison U. "Chaucer and the Three Crowns of Florence (Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio): Recent Comparative Scholarship," Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 6 (1985): 173-82.

Witten, Laurence C. II, "Boccaccio in Beinecke: Early Editions and Manuscripts," Yale University Library Gazette 60.3-4 (April, 1986): 105-10.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Boccaccio, Giovanni. L'Ameto, tr. Judith Serafini-Sauli (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1985). Rev. Tusiani, Joseph, Italica 63.3 (Autumn, 1986): 296-97.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. "Decameron", The John Payne Translation, Revised and Annotated by Charles S. Singleton, 3 vols. I: Decameron: Days I-V; II: Decameron: Days VI-X; III: Notes and Commentary (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984). Rev. Potter, Joy Hambuechen, Italica 63.3 (Autumn, 1986): 297-300; Smarr, Janet Levarie, Comparative Literature Studies 22.2 (Summer, 1985): 265-66.

Boitani, Piero. Chaucer and Boccaccio (Oxford: Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, 1977). Rev. Schless, Howard H., Speculum 60.3 (July, 1985): 644-46.

Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Studies in the Italian Trecento in Honor of Charles S. Singleton, eds. Aldo S. Bernardo and Anthony L. Pellegrini (Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1983). Rev. Chiappelli, Fredi, Italica 63.3 (Autumn, 1986): 291-96.

D'Antuono, Nancy L. Boccaccio's "Novelle" in the Theater of Lope de Vega (Madrid: Jose Porrúa Turanzas, 1983). Rev. Hill, Deborah J., Kentucky Romance Quarterly 32.4 (1985): 438-39.

Mazzotta, Giuseppe. The World at Play in Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). Rev. Verdicchio, Massimo, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 12.2 (June, 1985): 365-70.

Minnis, A. J. Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages (London: Scholar Press, 1984). Rev. Wetherbee, Winthrop, Speculum 61.1 (January, 1986): 178-80.

Potter, Joy Hambuechen. Five Frames for the "Decameron". Communication and Social Systems in the "Cornice" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982). Rev. Ferrante, Joan M., Romance Philology 39.1 (August, 1985): 130-33.

Sanguineti White, Laura. La scena conviviale e la sua funzione nel mondo del Boccaccio (Firenze: Olschki, 1983). Rev. Potter, Joy Hambuechen, Forum Italicum 19.1 (Spring, 1985): 166-68.

Wallace, David. Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio. Chaucer Studies, XII. (Dover, N.H.: Boydell and Brewer, 1985). Rev. Marcus, Millicent, Italica 63.3 (Autumn, 1986): 315-18.

Wetherbee, Winthrop. Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on "Troilus and Criseyde" (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984). Rev. Ruggiers, Paul G., Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 12.3 (September, 1985): 511-14; Boitani, Piero, Speculum 61.3 (July, 1986): 716-18.