Heliotropia 1.1 (2003)

American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1991
(through November, 1991)
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BOOKS: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Diana's Hunt: Caccia di Diana. Boccaccio's First Fiction, edited and translated by Anthony K. Cassell and Victoria Kirkham. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Pp. xvi + 255.

———. Ninfale fiesolano, a cura di Pier Massimo Forni. GUM, n.s., 196. Milano: Mursia, 1991. Pp. 208.

BOOKS: CRITICAL STUDIES

Doob, Penelope Reed. The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages. Ithaca, New York, and London: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xviii + 355. [Contains sections on Boccaccio's Corbaccio and De Genealogia Deorum Gentilium.]

Fleming, John V. Classical Imitation and Interpretation in Chaucer's "Troilus". Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Pp. xviii + 276.

Gilbert, Creighton E. Poets Seeing Artists' Work: Instances in the Italian Renaissance. Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1991. Pp. 293. [Contains a long section on "Boccaccio's Admirations," including "Boccaccio's Devotion to Artists and Art"; "The Fresco by Giotto in Milan"; "Boccaccio Looking at Actual Frescoes"; and "On Castagno's Nine Famous Men and Women."]

Gittes, Katharine S. Framing the "Canterbury Tales": Chaucer and the Medieval Frame Narrative Tradition. Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. 176.

Hanly, Michael G. Boccaccio, Beauvau, Chaucer: "Troilus and Criseyde" (Four Perspectives on Influence). Norman: Pilgrim Books, 1990.

McGregor, James H. The Image of Antiquity in Boccaccio's "Filostrato," "Filocolo," and "Teseida." "Studies in Italian Culture: Literature and History," I. New York: Peter Lang, 1990. Pp. [ix] + 192.

———. The Shades of Aeneas: The Imitation of Vergil and the History of Paganism in Boccaccio's "Filostrato," "Filocolo," and "Teseida." Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1991. Pp. ix + 133.

Menocal, Maria Rosa. Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccaccio. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. Pp. 223.

Scaglione, Aldo. Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. 440.

Taylor, Karla. Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy". Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. Pp. ix + 289. [Contains numerous references to Boccaccio.]

CRITICAL STUDIES (ARTICLES):

Bernardo, Aldo S. "Triumphal Poetry: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio," in Petrarch's "Triumphs": Allegory and Spectacle, edited by Konrad Eisenbichler and Amilcare A. Iannucci. University of Toronto Italian Series, 4 (Toronto: Dovehouse Editions, 1990): 33-45.

Brown Tkacz, Catherine. "Samson and Arcite in the Knight's Tale," Chaucer Review 25.2 (1990): 127-37.

Cachey, Theodore J., Jr. "Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the New World Encounter," Stanford Italian Review 10.1 (1991): 45-59.

Camargo, Martin "The Consolation of Pandarus," Chaucer Review 25.3 (1991): 214-28.

Cherchi, Paolo. "Codici boccacciani nella Biblioteca Aragonese," Studi sul Boccaccio 18 (1989): 163-65.

———. "Petrarca a 63 anni: una sfida alle stelle; ma...", Studi e problemi di critica testuale 39 (ottobre, 1989): 133-46.

Ciccardini Scarpa, Cecilia. "Boccaccio's Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri: Mythology used in Defence of Poetry," in Essays in Honor of Nicolae Iliescu, edited by Manuela Bertone; preface by Dante Della Terza (Cambridge: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1989): 25-48.

Costa-Zalessow, Natalia. "The Personification of Italy from Dante through the Trecento," Italica 68.3 (Autumn, 1991): 316-31.

Crane, Susan. "Medieval Romance and Feminine Difference in The Knight's Tale," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12 (1990): 47-63.

Forni, Pier Massimo. "Boccaccio retore," MLN 106.1 (January, 1991): 189-201.

Giusti, Eugenio L. "La novella di Cesca e 'intenderlo come si conviene' nella Sesta Giornata del Decameron," Studi sul Boccaccio 18 (1989): 319-46.

Hoy, James. "Chaucer and Dictys," Medium Aevum 59.2 (1990): 288-91.

Iannucci, Amilcare A. "Petrarch's Intertextual Strategies in the Triumphs," in Petrarch's "Triumphs": Allegory and Spectacle, edited by Konrad Eisenbichler and Amilcare A. Iannucci. University of Toronto Italian Series, 4 (Toronto: Dovehouse Editions, 1990): 3-10.

Lampe, David. "Festa Grandissima: Food, Feast and Fantasy in The Decameron," La Fusta 8.1 (Spring-Fall, 1990): 7-17.

Masciandaro, Franco. "La violenza e il giuoco nella novella di Martellino (Decameron II, 1): La problematica dell'improvvisazione," Italian Culture 8 (1990): 39-52.

McGregor, James H. "Reading the Decameron as a Caccia al porco," Italian Culture 8 (1990): 251-63.

Minicozzi, Nancy E. F. "Sources of Comedy in Boccaccio's Decameron: The Tale of Frate Cipolla," Pacific Coast Philology 25.1-2 (November, 1990): 106-15.

Osberg, Richard H. "Clerkly Allusiveness: Griselda, Xanthippe, and the Woman of Samaria," Allegorica 12 (1991): 17-27.

Sherberg, Michael. "The Patriarch's Pleasure and the Frametale Crisis: Decameron IV-V," Romance Quarterly 38.2 (May, 1991): 227-38.

Stillinger, Thomas C. "The Form of Filostrato," Stanford Italian Review 9.1-2 (1990): 191-210.

Smarr, Janet Levarie. "Mercury in the Garden: Mythographical Methods in the Merchant's Tale and Decameron 7.9," in The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England, edited by Jane Chance (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990): 199-214.

———. "Poets of Love and Exile," Dante and Ovid: Essays in Intertextuality, edited by Madison U. Sowell (Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1991): 139-51.

Usher, Jonathan. "Simona and Pasquino: 'Cur moriatur homo cui salvia crescit in horto?'," MLN 106.1 (January, 1991): 1-14.

Watson, Paul F. "On Seeing Guido Cavalcanti and the Houses of the Dead," Studi sul Boccaccio 18 (1989): 301-18.

DISSERTATIONS:

Abbondanza de la Motte, Karen. "From Narrative to Emblem: Cassone Depiction of Three Women in the Decameron," Dissertation Abstracts International 51, 11 (May, 1991): 3765-A.

Anderson, Gunnar Jay. "The Old Spanish 'Teseida': A Critical Edition and Study," Dissertation Abstracts International 50, 7 (January, 1990): 2046-A.

Bollettino, Vincenzo. "Giovanni Boccaccio: Life of Dante (Vita di Dante; Trattatello in Laude di Dante):" Dissertation Abstracts International 50, 11 (May, 1990): 3611-A.

Dunn, Walter Kevin. "'To the Gentle Reader': Prefatory Rhetoric in the Renaissance," Dissertation Abstracts International 50, 11 (May, 1990): 3578-A.

Gloss, Teresa Guerra. "Humour in Literature: Three Levels," Dissertation Abstracts International 50, 10 (April, 1990): 3221-A.

Hikel, Mary Lyn. "The Theory and Practice of the Frame Story as Narrative Device," Dissertation Abstracts International 50, 9 (March, 1990): 2888-A.

Kellogg, Laura Dowell. "Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the Legendary Cressida," Dissertation Abstracts International 52, 3 (September, 1991): 909-A.

Salgarolo, David. "The Figure of the Jew in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Narrative," Dissertation Abstracts International 50, 8 (February, 1990): 2484-2485-A.

Vacca, Diane Duyos. "Boccaccio's 'Captive Women': Other Voices in the Decameron," Dissertation Abstracts International 52, 1 (July, 1991): 159-A.

REVIEWS:

Anderson, David. Before the "Knight's Tale": Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's "Teseida" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988). Reviewed by: B[runo] Basile. Studi e problemi di critica testuale 38 (aprile, 1989): 244-245; Liana Cellerino, Rassegna della letteratura italiana 93.3 (settembre-dicembre, 1989): 209-210; Douglas Kelly, Italica 68.2 (Summer, 1991): 217-18.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Eclogues, tr. Janet Levarie Smarr. Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A, vol. 11 (New York and London: Garland, 1987). Reviewed by: G. H. McWilliam, Italian Studies XLIV (1989): 154-55; D. G. P[attison], Medium Aevum 58.2 (1989): 346.

Boitani, Piero, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989). Reviewed by: David Wallace, Renaissance Quarterly 44.1 (Spring, 1991): 157-60.

Bragantini, Renzo. Il riso sotto il velame (Firenze: Olschki, 1987). Reviewed by: Cristina Della Coletta, MLN 106.1 (January, 1991): 205-06.

Edwards, Robert R. The Dream of Chaucer: Representation and Reflection in the Early Narratives (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1989). Reviewed by: Stephen A. Barney, Modern Language Quarterly 50.2 (June, 1989): 183-86; R. W. Hanning. Modern Philology 88.4 (May, 1991): 421-23; Carol F. Heffernan, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12 (1990): 277-78.

Fido, Franco. Il regione delle simmetrie imperfette: Studi sul "Decameron" (Milano: Franco Angeli, 1988). Reviewed by: Aldo M. Costantini, Studi sul Boccaccio 18 (1989): 419-21.

Hollander, Robert. Boccaccio's Last Fiction: "Il Corbaccio" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988). Reviewed by: Anthony K. Cassell. Forum Italicum 24.2 (Fall, 1990): 289-92; Dina Consolini, in Envoi 2.1 (Spring, 1990): 91-94; Jonathan Usher, in Medium Aevum 58.2 (1989): 333-34.

Meltzoff, Stanley. Botticelli, Signorelli, and Savonarola: "Theologia Poetica" and Painting from Boccaccio to Poliziano (Firenze, Olschki, 1987). Reviewed by: Attilio Bettinzoli, Studi sul Boccaccio 18 (1989): 414-17.

Mazzotta, Giuseppe. The World at Play in Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). Reviewed by: H. Wayne Storey, in Speculum 65.1 (January, 1990): 194-96.

Taylor, Karla. Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy" (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989). Reviewed by: Nicholas R. Havely, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12 (1990): 331- 33; Douglas J. McMillan, in South Atlantic Review 56.2 (May, 1991): 130-31; Howard H. Schless, Envoi 2,.1 (Spring, 1990): 206-07; Edward Vasta, Annali d'Italianistica 9 (1991): 344-48.

FORTHCOMING:

Boli, Todd. "Dante's Heresies and Boccaccio's Insistence on the Comedy's Allegory," in Selected Proceedings of AAIS Tenth Annual Conference, ed. Mario Aste (1991).

Consoli, Joseph P. Giovanni Boccaccio: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1992).

Grossvogel, Steven. Ambiguity and Allusion in Boccaccio's "Filocolo" (Firenze: Olschki, 1992).

Hollander, Robert. "The Proem of the Decameron: Boccaccio between Ovid and Dante," in Miscellanea di studi danteschi in memoria di Silvio Pasquazi (Napoli: Federico & Ardia, 1991).