Heliotropia 1.1 (2003)

American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1994
(through November, 1994)
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BOOKS:

Kirkham, Victoria. The Sign of Reason in Boccaccio's Fiction. Biblioteca di "Lettere Italiane", vol. 43. Firenze: Olschki, 1993.

Langer, Ullrich. Perfect Friendship. Studies in Literature and Moral Philosophy from Boccaccio to Corneille. Genève: Droz, 1994.

ARTICLES:

Anderson, David. "The Italian Background to Chaucer's Epic Similes," in Annali d'italianistica 12 (1994): 15-38.

Barolini, Teodolinda. "'Le parole son femmine e i fatti sono maschi'. Toward a Sexual Poetics of the Decameron (Decameron II.10):" in Studi sul Boccaccio 21 (1993): 175-97.

Beidler, Peter G. "Chaucer's Reeves Tale, Boccaccio's Decameron, IX, 6, and Two `Soft' German Analogues," in Chaucer Review 28.3 (1994): 237-51.

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

Bérard-Cazalé, Claude. "La strategia della parola nel Decameron," in Modern Language Notes 109.1 (January, 1994): 12-26.

Capone, Cynthia C. "The Representation of Women in Boccaccio's Decameron," in La Fusta 10 (Fall, 1993-Spring, 1994): 13-27.

Cro, Stelio. "The Masks of the Trickster: A New Hero(ine) for a New Age," in Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 16, No. 46 (1993): 1-31.

Donaldson-Evans, Lance K. "The Narrative Voice of Desire: Boccaccio and the French Decamerons of the 15th and 16th Centuries," in Neophilologus 77.4 (1993): 541-52.

Ferme, Valerio C. "Ingegno and Morality in the New Social Order: The Role of the Beffa in Boccaccio's Decameron," in RLA: Romance Languages Annual 1992, ed. Jeanette Beer, Charles Ganelin and Anthony Julian Tamburri, 4 (1993): 248-53.

Ferrante, Joan M. "Politics, Finance, and Feminism in Decameron II.7," in Studi sul Boccaccio 21 (1993): 151-74.

Ferreri, Rosario. "Madonna Ambruogia e l'amore prezzolato in Boccaccio's De casibus," in Studi sul Boccaccio 21 (1993): 199-206.

Gallacher, Patrick J. "Chaucer and the Rhetoric of the Body," in Chaucer Review 28.3 (1994): 216-36.

Gehl, Paul F. "Preachers, Teachers, and Translators: The Social Meaning of Language Study in Trecento Tuscany," in Viator 25 (1994): 289-323.

Hardman, Phillipa. "Chaucer's Man of Sorrows: Secular Images of Pity in the Book of the Duchess, the Squire's Tale, and Troilus and Criseyde," in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 93.2 (April, 1994): 204-27.

Herold, Christine. "The Unfortunate Iconography of Chaucer's Wayward Monk," in English Language Notes 31.4 (June, 1994): 5-10.

Paden, Michael. "Elissa: la ghibellina del Decameron," in Rivista di Studi Italiani 11.2 (December, 1993): 1-12.

———. "Elissa: la ghibellina del Decameron," in Studi sul Boccaccio 21 (1993): 139-50.

Suzuki, Mihoko. "Gender, Power, and the Female Reader: Boccaccio's Decameron and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron," in Comparative Literature Studies 30.3 (1993): 231-52.

Usher, Jonathan. "Pieces of Dante Among Cipolla's Relics," in Lectura Dantis 13 (Fall, 1993): 22-31.

DISSERTATIONS:

Beck, Nora Maria. "Singing in the Garden: An Examination of Music in Trecento Painting and Boccaccio's Decameron," Dissertation Abstracts International 54, 7 (January, 1994): 2376-A.

Chadeyras, Claudine. "Etude du cadre dans les recueils narratifs au seizième siècle en France," Dissertation Abstracts International 53, 1 (July, 1992): 169-A.

Consolini, Dina Maria. "Parodies of Love in the Middle Ages: The Poetics of ReWriting," Dissertation Abstracts International 54, 8 (February, 1994): 3022-A.

Ricketts, Jill Megeve. "Visualizing Boccaccio," Dissertation Abstracts International 53, 2 (August, 1992): 491-A.

Roman, Marco David. "The Chastoiement and the Decameron: Rhetorical Examples of Vernacularization," Dissertation Abstracts International 54, 8 (February, 1994): 3022-A.

Rumble, Patrick Allen. "La Trilogia della Vita: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Schermo Eloquio," Dissertation Abstracts International 53, 8 (February, 1993): 2581-A.

Virtue, Nancy Elizabeth. "Representations of Rape in the Renaissance Novella," Dissertation Abstracts International 54, 9 (March, 1994): 3460-A.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Diana's Hunt: Caccia di Diana. Boccaccio's First Fiction, ed. and tr. Anthony K. Cassell and Victoria Kirkham (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Eugenio L. Giusti, in Italica 71.1 (Spring, 1994): 121-23; Max Staples, in Parergon 9.2 (December, 1991): 144-47.

———. Ninfale Fiesolano, edited by Pier Massimo Forni (Milano: Mursia Editore, 1991). Reviewed by: Armando Bisanti, in Schede medievali 22-23 (gennaio-dicembre, 1992): 94-99.

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. Reviewed by: Giulia Natali, in Rassegna della letteratura italiana 97.1-2 (gennaio-agosto, 1993): 308-13.

Boitani, Piero. The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Reviewed by: Michael Calabrese, in Philosophy and Literature 18.1 (April, 1994): 173-74.

Branca, Vittore. Tradizione delle opere di Giovanni Boccaccio, 2: Un secondo elenco di manoscritti e studi sul testo del "Decameron" con due appendici (Roma: Storia e Letteratura, 1991). Reviewed by: Marga Cottino-Jones, in Speculum 69.2 (April, 1994): 429-30.

Brownlee, Marina Scordilis. The Severed Word: Ovid's "Heroides" and the "Novela Sentimental" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990). Reviewed by: Carlos A. Vega, in Speculum 68.4 (October, 1993): 1072-74.

Caporello-Szykman, Corradina, The Boccaccian Novella: Creation and Waning of a Genre. Studies in Italian Culture: Literature and History, vol. 2. (New York-Bern-Frankfurt am Main-Paris: Peter Lang, 1990). Reviewed by: Tommaso Giartosio, in Rassegna della letteratura italiana 97.1-2 (gennaio-agosto, 1993): 313.

Fleming, John V. Classical Imitation and Interpretation in Chaucer's "Troilus" (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990). Reviewed by: Robert R. Edwards, in Comparative Literature Studies 30.3 (1993): 295-98.

Forni, Pier Massimo. Forme complesse nel Decameron (Firenze: Olschki, 1992). Reviewed by: Linda L. Carroll, in Renaissance Quarterly 47.3 (Autumn, 1994): 650-53; V. Louise Katainen, in Annali d'italianistica 11 (1993): 302-03.

Gittes, Katharine S. Framing the "Canterbury Tales": Chaucer and the Medieval Frame Narrative Tradition (Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Christian K. Zacher, in Speculum 69.2 (April, 1994): 481-82.

Grossvogel, Steven. Ambiguity and Allusion in Boccaccio's Filocolo (Firenze: Olschki, 1992). Reviewed by: Linda L. Carroll, in Renaissance Quarterly 47.3 (Autumn, 1994): 650-53; Jo Ann Cavallo, in Studi sul Boccaccio 21 (1993): 385-89; Millicent Marcus, in Forum Italicum 28.1 (Spring, 1994): 194-95; Christopher Nissen, in Italica 71.3 (Autumn, 1994): 407-09; Jonathan Usher, in Italian Studies 48 (1993): 143-44.

Hanly, Michael G. Boccaccio, Beauvau, Chaucer: "Troilus and Criseyde:" Four Perspectives on Influence (Norman: Pilgrim Books, 1990). Reviewed by: David Anderson, in Medium Aevum 62.2 (1993): 325-27; Tommaso Giartosio, in Rassegna della letteratura italiana, 97.1-2 (gennaio-agosto, 1993): 313-14.

Hansen, Elaine. Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). Reviewed by: Kathryn L. Lynch, in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 92.3 (July, 1993): 429-31.

Heinrichs, Katherine. The Myths of Love: Classical Lovers in Medieval Literature (University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1990). Reviewed by: Regina Psaki, in Comparative Literature 46.1 (Winter, 1994): 101-04; Karla Taylor, in Speculum 68.4 (October, 1993): 1130-32.

Mazzotta, Giuseppe. The World at Play in Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). Reviewed by: Victoria Kirkham, in Renaissance Quarterly 47.3 (Autumn, 1994): 653-56.

McGregor, James H., The Image of Antiquity in Boccaccio's "Filocolo," "Filostrato," and "Teseida" (New York: Peter Lang, 1990). Reviewed by: Dennis Looney, in Speculum 69.2 (April, 1994): 531-33.

———. 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: Tommaso Giartosio, in Rassegna della letteratura italiana 97.1-2 (gennaio-agosto, 1993): 314; J. S. Ryan, in Paragon 10.1 (June, 1992): 144-46.

McLeod, Glenda. Virtue and Venom: Catalogs of Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Thelma Fenster, in Speculum 69.1 (January, 1994): 217-18.

Menocal, María Rosa. Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccaccio (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Karla Taylor, in Renaissance Quarterly 46.4 (Winter, 1993): 819-20.

Nolan, Barbara. Chaucer and the Tradition of the "Roman Antique" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Reviewed by: Barry Windeatt, in Medium Aevum 63.1 (1994): 136-37.

Roney, Lois. Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Theories of Scholastic Psychology (Tampa: University of South Florida Press, 1990). Reviewed by: Patrick J. Gallacher, in Speculum 68.3 (July, 1993): 877-80.

Scaglione, Aldo. Knights at Court: Courtliness Chivalry, and Courtesy From Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Madison U. Sowell, in Rivista di Studi Italiani 11.2 (December, 1993): 101-04; Larissa Taylor, Renaissance Quarterly 46.4 (Winter, 1993): 824-26.

Stillinger, Thomas C. The Song of Troilus: Lyric Authority in the Medieval Book (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). Reviewed by: N. S. Thompson, in Medium Aevum 63.1 (1994): 157-58.

Wallace, David. Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, in Italian Studies 48 (1993): 142-43.