Heliotropia 1.1 (2003)

American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1992
(through November, 1992)
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BOOKS:

Benson, C. David. Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde". London and Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.

Di Stefano, Giuseppe. Multa mentiere poetae: Le débat sur la poésie de Boccace à Nicolas de Gonesse. Inedita & Rara, 6. Montréal: Éditions CERES, 1989. Pp. 79.

Forni, Pier Massimo. Forme complesse nel Decameron. Biblioteca di "Lettere Italiane": Studi e Testi, 42. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1992. Pp. 153.

Grossvogel, Steven. Ambiguity and Allusion in Boccaccio's "Filocolo". Biblioteca dell'"Archivum Romanicum": serie I: Storia-Letteratura-Paleografia, 248. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1992. Pp. 254.

Illiano, Antonio. Per l'esegesi del "Corbaccio". Napoli: Federico & Ardia, 1991. Pp. 104.

Kiser, Lisa J. Truth and Textuality in Chaucer's Poetry. Hanover, New Hampshire, and London: University Press of New England, 1991. Pp. x + 201.

Wallace, David. Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron. Landmarks of World Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. [xiv] + 117.

ARTICLES:

Baskins, Cristelle L. "Griselda, or the Renaissance Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelor in Tuscan Cassone Painting," Stanford Italian Review 10.2 (1991): 153-75.

Benfell, V. Stanley. "Exemplarity and the Interpretive Frame in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron," Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 11 (1990): 49-77.

Bergan, Brooke. "Surface and Secret in the Knight's Tale," Chaucer Review 26.1 (1991): 1-16.

Boli, Todd. "Treatment of Orthodoxy and Insistence on the Comedy's Allegory in Boccaccio's Esposizioni," Italian Culture 9 (1991): 63-74.

Bolongaro, Eugenio. "Positions and Presuppositions in the Tenth Tale of the Fifth Day of Boccaccio's Decameron," Studies in Short Fiction 27.3 (Summer, 1990): 399-404.

Burgwinkle, William E. "From Commentary to Tale: Biography, Boccaccio and Beyond," Literary History, Narrative, and Culture. Edited by Wimal Dissanayake and Steven Bradbury (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989): pp. 81-89.

Cassell, Anthony K. "Boccaccio's Caccia di Diana: Horizon of Expectation," Italian Culture 9 (1991): 85-102.

Clogan, Paul M. "The Knight's Tale and the Ideology of the Roman Antique," Medievalia et Humanistica 18 (1992): 129-55.

Edwards, Robert R. "Faithful Translations: Love and the Question of Poetry in Chaucer," in "The Olde Daunce": Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World. Edited by Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991): pp. 138-53, 272-76.

Ferreri, Rosario. "Appunti sulla presenza del Convivio nel Decameron. I. Il Proemio del Decameron; II. La novella VI, 6 e la quaestio della nobiltà," Studi sul Boccaccio 19 (1990): 63-77.

Forti-Lewis, Angelica. "Il mito di Don Giovanni nel teatro italiano del Seicento," Rivista di Studi Italiani 8.1-2 (Giugno-Dicembre, 1990): 22-38.

Greene, Thomas M. "Ritual and Text in the Renaissance," Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 18.2-3 (June-September, 1991): 179-97.

Haahr, Joan G. "Criseyde's Inner Debate: The Dialectic of Enamorment in the Filostrato and the Troilus," Studies in Philology 89.3 (Summer, 1992): 257-71.

Haas, Renate. "A Note on Troilus and Criseyde v. 1786-92," Florilegium 10 (1988-1991): 93-98.

Illiano, Antonio. "Corbaccio: Precisazioni e proposte su autobiografismo, età, datazione," Italianistica 19.2-3 (maggio-dicembre, 1990): 239-52.

Kellogg, Laura. "Boccaccio's Criseida and Her Narrator, Filostrato," Critical Matrix: Princeton Working Papers in Women's Studies 6 (1991): 46-75.

Kemp, Melody J. "Palamon and Theban Restoration in the Knight's Tale," Neophilologus 76, 2 (April, 1992): 317-19.

Kinney, Clare Regan. "'Who Made This Song?': The Engendering of Lyric Counterplots in Troilus and Criseyde," Studies in Philology 89.3 (Summer, 1992): 272-92.

Mancini, Albert N. "Riscrivere Boccaccio: Varietà e digressione nella novellistica dell'età elisabettiana," in Limite e ulteriorità: Studi in onore di Italo Bertoni. Edited by A. Erbetta (Milano: Marzorati, 1991): pp. 275-92.

McGrady, Donald. "Sobre una fuente boccaccesca en un soneto religioso de Lope," Romance Quarterly 39.2 (May, 1992): 199-203.

Mieszkowski, Gretchen. "Chaucer's Much Loved Criseyde," Chaucer Review 26.2 (1991): 109-32.

Picone, Michelangelo. "L'autore allo specchio dell'opera: una lettura di Decameron I 7," Studi sul Boccaccio 19 (1990): 27-46.

Reale, Nancy M. "'Bitwixen Game and Ernest': Troilus and Criseyde as a Post-Boccaccian Response to the Commedia," Philological Quarterly 71.2 (Spring, 1992): 155-71.

Sadlek, Gregory M. "Love, Labor, and Sloth in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde," Chaucer Review 26.4 (1992): 350-68.

Sinicropi, Giovanni. "Chastity and Love in the Decameron," in "The Olde Daunce": Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World. Edited by Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991): pp. 104-20, 268-70.

Testaferri, Ada. "Motto di spirito e potere eversivo di Chichibio," Quaderni d'italianistica 12.2 (autunno, 1991): 223-30.

Wallace, David. "'Whan She Translated Was': A Chaucerian Critique of the Petrarchan Academy," in Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530. Edited by Lee Patterson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990): pp. 156-215.

Williams, Robert. "Boccaccio's Altarpiece," Studi sul Boccaccio 19 (1990): 229-40.

Wright, Elizabeth C. "Marguerite Reads Giovanni: Gender and Narration in the Heptaméron and the Decameron," Renaissance and Reformation 27.1 (Winter, 1991): 21-36.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS:

Capone, Cynthia Constance. "The Representation of Women in Boccaccio's Decameron," Dissertation Abstracts International 53, 2 (August, 1992): 515-A.

Consoli, Joseph Philip. "Giovanni Boccaccio: An Annotated Bibliography, 1939-1986," Dissertation Abstracts International, 52, 7 (January, 1992): 2571-A.

Giusti, Eugenio. "Dall'amore cortese alla comprensione: Il viaggio ideologico di Giovanni Boccaccio dalla Caccia di Diana al Decameron," Dissertation Abstracts International 52, 8 (February, 1992): 2943-A.

Muto, Lisa M. "The Parabola of Pleasure: A Study of the Cornice of the Decameron," Dissertation Abstracts International 53, 3 (September, 1992): 805-A.

Ricketts, Jill Megeve. "Visualizing Boccaccio," Dissertation Abstracts International 53, 2 (August, 1992): 491-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: R. Hastings, in Medium Aevum 60.1 (1991): 112-13.

Benson, C. David. Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990). Reviewed by: David Wallace, Speculum 67.3 (July, 1992): 626-29.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron, ed. C. Gariano (Potomac: Scripta Humanistica, 1986). Reviewed by: Antonio Toscano, Italian Quarterly 30.118 (Fall, 1989): 83-84.

———. Ninfale fiesolano, a cura di Pier Massimo Forni (Milano: Mursia, 1991). Reviewed by: Jonathan Usher, Modern Language Review 87.1 (January, 1992): 498-500.

Boitani, Piero. The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Reviewed by: Caron Ann Cioffi, Modern Philology 90.1 (August, 1992): 83-91; Phillipa Hardman, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 91.3 (July, 1992): 421-24; Ronald B. Herzman, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 165-68; Lino Pertile, Italian Studies 46 (1991): 122-24; Howard H. Schless, Speculum 67.2 (April, 1992): 381-82.

Caporello-Szykman, Corradina. The Boccaccian Novella: Creation and Waning of a Genre (New York: Peter Lang, 1990). Reviewed by: Albert Howard Carter III, Studies in Short Fiction 27, 3 (Summer, 1990): 615-16.

Del Sera, Beatrice. Amor di virtù: Commedia in cinque atti, 1548, a cura di Elissa Weaver (Ravenna: Longo, 1990). Reviewed by: Sara Maria Adler, Italica 68.4 (Winter, 1991): 492-94; A[ntonio] F[ranceschetti], Quaderni d'italianistica 12.2 (Autunno, 1991): 329.

The European Tragedy of Troilus, ed. Piero Boitani (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989). Reviewed by: Linda Charnes, Shakespeare Quarterly 43.2 (Summer, 1992): 250-53; Caron Ann Cioffi, Modern Philology 90.1 (August, 1992): 83-91.

Heinrichs, Katherine. The Myths of Love: Classical Lovers in Medieval Literature (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990). Reviewed by: Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Modern Language Quarterly 52.1 (March, 1991): 100-02; John E. Rexine, Vergilius 37 (1991): 115-18.

Hollander, Robert. Boccaccio's Last Fiction: "Il Corbaccio" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988). Reviewed by: Gregory L. Lucente, Italian Culture 9 (1991): 460-62; Michael Sherberg, Speculum 66.3 (July, 1991): 644-45; Paola Vecchi Galli, Studi sul Boccaccio 19 (1990): 279-81.

Illiano, Antonio. Per l'esegesi del "Corbaccio" (Napoli: Federico & Ardia, 1991). Reviewed by: P. Rota, in Studi e problemi di critica testuale 44 (aprile, 1992): 267-69.

Kallendorf, Craig. In Praise of Aeneas: Virgil and Epideictic Rhetoric in the Early Italian Renaissance (Hanover-London: University Press of New England, 1989). Reviewed by: Ronald R. Macdonald, Speculum 67.1 (January, 1992): 168-69.

McGregor, James H. The Image of Antiquity in Boccaccio's "Filostrato," "Filocolo," and "Teseida" (New York: Peter Lang, 1990). Reviewed by: Janet L. Smarr, Renaissance Quarterly, 45, 3 (Autumn, 1992): 542-43.

———. The Shades of Aeneas: The Imitation of Vergil and the History of Paganism in Boccaccio's "Filostrato," "Filocolo," and "Teseida" (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Craig Kallendorf, Vergilius 37 (1991): 112-14; John Kleiner, Philosophy and Literature 16.1 (April, 1992): 187-88.

Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c. 1100-c. 1375: The Commentary Tradition, ed. A. J. Minnis and A. B. Scott, with the assistance of David Wallace (New York: Clarendon Press, 1988). Reviewed by: T. P. Dolan, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 218-21; Richard K. Emmerson, Philosophy and Literature 16.1 (April, 1992): 195-96.

Menocal, María Rosa. Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccaccio (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Bernhard Teuber, Modern Language Notes 107.2 (March, 1992): 406-10.

Morabito, Raffaele, ed. Griselda 2. La storia di Griselda in Europa. Atti del Convegno: Modi dell'intertestualità: La storia di Griselda in Europa, L'Aquila, 12-14 maggio 1988 (L'Aquila-Roma: Japadre Editore, 1990). Reviewed by: A[ntonio] F[ranceschetti]. Quaderni d'italianistica 12.2 (Autunno, 1991): 327-28.

Noakes, Susan. Timely Reading: Between Exegesis and Interpretation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988). Reviewed by: John C. Barnes, Italian Studies 46 (1991): 121-22; Joan Ferrante, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 224-27.

Scaglione, Aldo. Knights at Court, Courtliness, Chivalry and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Gaetano Cipolla. Italian Journal 6.1 (1992): 67.

Taylor, Karla. Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy" (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989). Reviewed by: Sandy Feinstein. Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 12 (1991): 143-44.

FORTHCOMING:

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Corbaccio. Edited and translated by Anthony K. Cassell (Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies).

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.

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

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)

Smarr, Janet L. "Boccaccio and Renaissance Women Writers," in Studi sul Boccaccio.