Heliotropia 1.1 (2003)

American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1993
(through November, 1993)
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BOOKS:

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Corbaccio, Or, The Labyrinth of Love. Edited and translated by Anthony K. Cassell. Second Edition Revised. Binghamton, New York: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993. Pp. xxii + 90.

———. The Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta Sent by Her to Women in Love. Translated by Roberta L. Payne and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. Pp. 149.

Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception. Edited with an "Editors' Preface" by Kevin Brownlee and Victoria Kirkham. "Premessa" by Vittore Branca. Special section of Studi sul Boccaccio, vol. 20 (1991-1992): pp. 167-397. Each essay is listed separately below under Articles.

Cavallo, Jo Ann. Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato": An Ethics of Desire. Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993. Pp. xi + 206. [Contains numerous references to Boccaccio.]

Consoli, Joseph P. Giovanni Boccaccio: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. Pp. xiv + 484.

Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. Berkeley-Los Angeles-Oxford: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. ix + 301.

Marcus, Millicent. Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 313. [Contains a chapter on "Pasolini's Decameron: Writing with Bodies," 136-55.]

McAlpine, Monica E. Chaucer's "Knight's Tale": An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1985. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991. Pp. lii + 432. (Chaucer Bibliographies, Vol. 4)

McLeod, Glenda. Virtue and Venom: Catalogs of Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991. Pp. vii + 168. [Contains a chapter on "The Mulier Clara" which treats Boccaccio.]

Nissen, Christopher. Ethics of Retribution in the Decameron and the Late Medieval Italian Novella. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993. Pp. 156.

Nolan, Barbara. Chaucer and the Tradition of the "Roman Antique". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xv + 391.

Quilligan, Maureen. The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames". Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xv + 290. [Contains numerous references to Boccaccio in chapter one "The Name of the Author" and in chapter four "Rewriting the Body."]

Roney, Lois. Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and Theories of Scholastic Psychology. Tampa: University of South Florida Press, 1990. Pp. xviii + 376.

Staples, Max. The Ideology of the "Decameron". Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993. Pp. 304.

Stillinger, Thomas C. The Song of Troilus: Lyric Authority in the Medieval Book. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Pp. ix + 287.

Viano, Maurizio. A Certain Realism: Making Use of Pasolini's Film Theory and Practice. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 1993. [Contains a section on Pasolini's Decameron.]

ARTICLES:

Ascoli, Albert Russell. "Boccaccio's Auerbach. Holding the Mirror up to Mimesis," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 377-97.

Benedetti, Laura. "I silenzi di Alatiel," Quaderni d'italianistica 13.2 (Autunno, 1992): 245-55.

Birns, Nicholas. "The Trojan Myth: Postmodern Reverberations," Exemplaria 5.1 (Spring, 1993): 45-78.

Bliss, Lee. "The Renaissance Griselda: A Woman for All Seasons," Viator 23 (1992): 301-43.

Brownlee, Kevin. "Commentary and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity: Griseldis in Petrarch, Philippe de Mézières, and the Estoire," South Atlantic Quarterly 91.4 (Fall, 1992): 865-90.

———. "Il Decameron di Boccaccio e la Cité des Dames di Christine de Pizan: Modelli e contro-modelli," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 233-51.

Chiampi, James T. "Petrarch's Shame and Scandal," Italiana V (1993): ed. Albert N. Mancini, Paolo A. Giordano, and Enrico Pozzi, 23-39.

Cottino-Jones, Marga. "Desire and the Fantastic in the Decameron: The Third Day," Italica 70.1 (Spring 1993): 1-18.

Feinstein, Wiley. "Twentieth-Century Feminist Responses to Boccaccio's Alibech Story," RLA: Romance Languages Annual (1989): ed. Ben Lawton and Anthony Julian Tamburri (1990): 116-20.

Ferreri, Rosario. "La novella di frate Puccio," Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-1992): 73-83.

Fido, Franco. "Ameto e Africo precursori del Vallera: Elementi 'nenciali' nella poesia di Boccaccio," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 221-32.

Finlayson, John. "The Knight's Tale: The Dialogue of Romance, Epic, and Philosophy," Chaucer Review 27.2 (1992): 126-49.

Fleming, Ray. "Happy Endings? Resisting Women and the Economy of Love in Day Five of Boccaccio's Decameron," Italica 70.1 (Spring, 1993): 30-45.

Forni, Pier Massimo. "Appunti sull'intrattenimento decameroniano," in Passare il tempo: La letteratura del gioco e dell'intrattenimento dal XII al XVI secolo. Atti del Convegno di Pienza, 10-14 settembre 1991 (Roma: Salerno Editrice, 1993): 529-40.

Ginsberg, Warren S. "'Medium autem, et extrema sunt eiusdem generis': Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and the Shape of Writing," Exemplaria 5.1 (Spring, 1993): 185-206.

Grossvogel, Steven. "The Trial of Biancifiore in Boccaccio's Filocolo," in L'imaginaire courtois et son double, eds. Giovanna Angeli and Luciano Formisano. Pubblicazioni dell'Università degli Studi di Salerno. Sezione Atti, Convegni, Miscellanee, 35 (Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1992): 313-21.

Kinney, Clare. "Lost in Translation: The Vicissitudes of the Heroine and the Immasculation of the Reader in a Seventeenth-Century Paraphrase of Troilus and Criseyde," Exemplaria 5.2 (Fall, 1993): 343-63.

Kirkham, Victoria. "The Classic Bond of Friendship in Boccaccio's Tito and Gisippo (Decameron 10.8):" in The Classics in the Middle Ages, eds. Aldo S. Bernardo and Saul Levin (Binghamton, New York: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1990): 223-35.

———. "John Badmouth: Fortunes of the Poet's Image," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 355-76.

———. "Two New Translations: The Early Boccaccio in English Dress," Italica 70.1 (Spring, 1993): 79-89.

Koepke Brown, Carole. "'It is true art to conceal art': The Episodic Structure of Chaucer's Franklin's Tale," Chaucer Review 27.2 (1992): 162-85.

Marcus, Millicent. "Screening the Decameron," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 345-53.

Martinez, Ronald L. "Before the Teseida: Statius and Dante in Boccaccio's Epic," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 205-19.

Nissen, Christopher. "Ethical Models in Boccaccio's Decameron," RLA: Romance Languages Annual (1989): eds. Ben Lawton and Anthony Julian Tamburri (1990): 191-96.

———. "In Search of a Moral Voice in Ser Giovanni's Il Pecorone," RLA: Romance Languages Annual (1991): eds. Jeanette Beer, Charles Ganelin, and Anthony Julian Tamburri (1992): 282-88.

———. "A Literature of Lies: Poggio Bracciolini's Facetiae and the Tradition of the Italian Novella Collection," Cincinnati Romance Review 11 (1992): 118-31.

Noakes, Susan. "The Heptameron Prologue and The Anxiety of Influence," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 267-77.

Psaki, F. Regina. "The Play of Genre and Voicing in Boccaccio's Corbaccio," Italiana V (1993): eds. Albert N. Mancini, Paolo A. Giordano, and Enrico Pozzi, 41-54.

Pugliese, Guido. "Commedia dell'arte Elements in Boccaccio's Decameron," in The Science of Buffoonery: Theory and Practice of the Commedia dell'arte, eds. Domenico Pietropaolo and Maristella de Panizza Lorch (Ottawa: Dovehouse, 1989): 69-76.

Quilligan, Maureen. "Translating Dismemberment: Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 253-66.

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. "A Commentary on Commentary in Boccaccio," South Atlantic Quarterly 91.4 (Fall, 1992): 813-34.

———. "Un commento all'autocommento nel Teseida," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 185-203.

Smarr, Janet Levarie. "Boccaccio and Renaissance Women," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 279-97.

Stallybrass, Peter. "Dismemberments and Re-Memberments: Rewriting the Decameron, 4.1, in the English Renaissance," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 299-324.

Stewart, Pamela D. "How to Get to a Happy Ending: Decameron III.9 and Shakespeare's All's Well," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 325-44.

Taylor, Paul Beekman (with Sophie Bordier). "Chaucer and the Latin Muses," Traditio 47 (1992): 215-32.

Taylor, Steven M. "Martin Le Franc's Rehabilitation of Notorious Women: The Case of Pope Joan," Fifteenth-Century Studies 19 (1992): 261-78.

Usher, Jonathan. "Paolo and Francesca in the Filocolo and the Esposizioni," Lectura Dantis 10 (Spring, 1992): 22-33.

———. "Pieces of Dante among Cipolla's Relics," Lectura Dantis 13 (Fall, 1993): 22-31.

Wetherbee, Winthrop. "History and Romance in Boccaccio's Teseida," in Boccaccio 1990: The Poet and His Renaissance Reception, 173-84.

Zago, Esther. "Gender and Melancholy in Boccaccio's Decameron," Lingua e stile 27 (1992): 235-49.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS:

Sommers, Gabriella Serri. "La memoria poetica del Boccaccio nel Ninfale fiesolano," Dissertation Abstracts International 54, 1 (July, 1993): 198-A.

Scholz, Myra J. Heerspink. " A Merchant's Wife on Knight's Adventure: Permutations of a Medieval Tale in German, Dutch and English Chapbooks around 1500," Dissertation Abstracts International 54, 4 (October, 1993): 1382-A. (Discusses Decameron 2.9.)

REVIEWS:

Benson, C. David. Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (London and Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990). Reviewed by: Robert M. Jordan, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992): 95-98; Gerald Morgan, Medium Aevum 61.1 (1992): 128-29.

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). Reviewed by: Anna Laura Lepschy, Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-1992): 422-23; G. H. McWilliam, Medium Aevum 61.2 (1992): 349-51.

———. The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta, edited and translated by Mariangela Causa-Steindler and Thomas Mauch (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990). Reviewed by: A. L. Lepschy, Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-1992): 421-22; Claudia Rattazzi Papka, in Envoi 3.1 (Spring, 1991): 233-34.

———. The Life of Dante (Trattatello in Laude di Dante): translated by Vincenzo Zin Bollettino (New York and London: Garland, 1990). Reviewed by: Claudia Rattazzi Papka, in Envoi 3.1 (Spring, 1991): 233-34.

———. Ninfale Fiesolano, edited by Pier Massimo Forni (Milano: Mursia Editore, 1991). Reviewed by: Fabian Alfie, Italica 70.1 (Spring, 1993): 103-04; Ada Testaferri, Quaderni d'italianistica 13.1 (Primavera, 1992): 147-49.

Boitani, Piero. The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Reviewed by: Mark Parker, Lectura Dantis 10 (Spring, 1992): 115-17.

Brownlee, Marina Scordilis. The Severed Word: Ovid's "Heroides" and the "Novela Sentimental" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990). Reviewed by: Barbara F. Weissberger, Renaissance Quarterly 45.3 (Autumn, 1992): 587-89.

Bruni, Francesco. Boccaccio: L'invenzione della letteratura mezzana (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1990). Reviewed by: Victoria Kirkham, Speculum 68.1 (January, 1993): 113-16.

Doob, Penelope Reed. The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages (Ithaca, New York, and London: Cornell University Press, 1990). Reviewed by: Peter Armour, in Modern Language Review 87.4 (October, 1992): 918-919; C. David Benson, in Medium Aevum 61.1 (1992): 106-07; Daniela Boccassini, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 18.4 (December, 1991): 600-03; James J. O'Donnell, Comparative Literature Studies 29.2 (1992): 210-14; Guy P. Raffa, Lectura Dantis 13 (Fall, 1993): 105-06; John M. Rist, University of Toronto Quarterly 62.1 (Fall, 1992): 138-39.

The European Tragedy of Troilus, edited by Piero Boitani (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989). Reviewed by: H. Ansgar Kelly, English Language Notes 30.3 (March, 1993): 78-80.

Fleming, John V. Classical Imitation and Interpretation in Chaucer's "Troilus" (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1990). Reviewed by: Winthrop Wetherbee, Speculum 67.4 (October 1992): 965-67.

Forni, Pier Massimo. Forme complesse nel Decameron (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1992). Reviewed by: V. Louise Katainen, Annali d'Italianistica 11 (1993): 302-03.

Ganim, John M. Chaucerian Theatricality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Carl Lindahl, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992): 136-40; Peter W. Travis, Speculum 68.1 (January, 1993): 150-54.

Genèse, codification et rayonnement d'un genre médiéval. La nouvelle, edited by Michelangelo Picone, Giuseppe di Stefano, and Pamela Stewart (Montreal: Plato Academic Publishing, 1983). Reviewed by: Enrico Vicentini, Rivista di studi italiani 11.1 (Giugno, 1993): 172-79.

George Chastelain, "Le Temple de Bocace" (1415-1475): edited by Susanna Bliggenstorfer (Berne: Francke, 1988). Reviewed by: George T. Diller, Fifteenth-Century Studies 19 (1992): 361-64.

Gilbert, Creighton E. Poets Seeing Artists' Work: Instances in the Italian Renaissance (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1991). Reviewed by: Paul F. Watson, Italica 70.2 (Summer, 1993): 236-39.

Gittes, Katharine S. Framing the "Canterbury Tales": Chaucer and the Medieval Frame Narrative Tradition (Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Dolores Warwick Frese, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 206-10.

Grossvogel, Steven. Ambiguity and Allusion in Boccaccio's "Filocolo" (Firenze: Olschki, 1992). Reviewed by: Janet Smarr, Annali d'Italianistica 10 (1992): 349-51.

Hanly, Michael G. Boccaccio, Beauvau, Chaucer: "Troilus and Criseyde:" Four Perspectives on Influence (Norman: Pilgrim Books, 1990). Reviewed by: Peter G. Beidler, Speculum 68.2 (April, 1993): 513-14; James M. Dean, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992): 147-50; Roger Ellis, Modern Language Review 88.3 (July, 1993): 719-20.

Illiano, Antonio. Per l'esegesi del "Corbaccio" (Napoli: Federico & Ardia, 1991). Reviewed by: Fernando di Mieri, Rivista di studi italiani 10.2 (Dicembre, 1992): 78-79; Monica Donaggio, Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-1992): 427-28; Jonathan Usher, in Modern Language Review 88.1 (January, 1993): 222-24.

McAlpine, Monica E. Chaucer's "Knight's Tale": An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1985 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Daniel J. Ransom, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 229-32.

McGregor, James H. 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: David Anderson, Medium Aevum 61.1 (1992): 153-54; Millicent Marcus, Renaissance Quarterly 45.4 (Winter, 1992): 833-36; Janet L. Smarr, Speculum 68.1 (January, 1993): 211-13; Anna Torti, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 14 (1992): 172-74.

McLeod, Glenda. Virtue and Venom: Catalogs of Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Martha A. Kallstrom, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992): 175-77.

Menocal, María Rosa. Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccaccio (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Deborah Parker, Lectura Dantis 13 (Fall, 1993): 110-12; G. H. McWilliam, Medium Aevum 62.1 (1993): 150-52.

The New Medievalism, edited by Marina S. Brownlee, Kevin Brownlee, and Stephen G. Nichols (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Alexandra Hennessey Olsen, Philosophy and Literature 17.1 (April, 1993): 172-73; Robert S. Sturges, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 174-77; Paul Zumthor, Speculum 68.1 (January, 1993): 112-13.

Noakes, Susan. Timely Reading: Between Exegesis and Interpretation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988). Reviewed by: Gerald L. Bruns, Comparative Literature 45.2 (Spring, 1993): 175-77.

Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide and Tyrannicide during the Renaissance (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Juliam H. Franklin, Sixteenth Century Journal 24.1 (Spring, 1993): 153-54.

Quilligan, Maureen. The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames". Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991. Reviewed by: Sheila Delany, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 263-68.

Roney, Lois. Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and Theories of Scholastic Psychology (Tampa: University of South Florida Press, 1990). Reviewed by: Ann W. Astell, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 91.4 (October, 1992): 559-61; Alcuin Blamires, Medium Aevum 61.1 (1992): 130; Carolyn P. Collette, Envoi 3.1 (Spring, 1991): 200-08.

Scaglione, Aldo. Knights at Court, Courtliness, Chivalry and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Lynne Lawner, Annali d'Italianistica 11 (1993): 309-11.

Stillinger, Thomas C. The Song of Troilus: Lyric Authority in the Medieval Book (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). Reviewed by: David Wallace, Annali d'Italianistica 11 (1993): 303-05.

Taylor, Karla. Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy" (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989). Reviewed by: Piero Boitani, Speculum 67.3 (July, 1992): 750-52.

Wallace, David. Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Anna Laura Lepschy, Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-1992): 422-23; N. S. Thompson, Medium Aevum 61.2 (1992): 351-52; Jonathan Usher, Modern Language Review 88.1 (January, 1993): 224