Heliotropia 1.1 (2003)

American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1998-99
(through April, 1999)
[pdf]

BOOKS:

Coleman, William E. Watermarks in the Manuscripts of Boccaccio's "Il Teseida": A Catalogue, Codicological Study, and Album. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1997. 207 p. Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana, vol. 149.

Grudin, Michaela Paasche. Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. ix, 200 p.

Howes, Laura L. Chaucer's Gardens and the Language of Convention. Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1997. xi, 142 p.

Ricketts, Jill M. Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 256 p.

Stone, Gregory B. The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics. New York: St. Martins, 1998. 304 p.

Tinkle, Theresa. Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xiii, 294 p.

ARTICLES:

Alfie, Fabian. "Love and Poetry: Reading Boccaccio's Filostrato as a Medieval Parody," Forum Italicum 32.2 (Fall, 1998): 347-74.

Ascoli, Albert Russell. "Pyrrhus' Rules: Playing with Power from Boccaccio to Macchiavelli," MLN 114.1 (January, 1999): 14-57.

Branca, Vittore. "Intervista a Vittore Branca," Italian Quarterly 34, 131-32 (Winter-Spring, 1997): 85-97.

———. "Vittore Branca: una autobiografia — o meglio autoironia — intellettuale," Italian Quarterly 34, 131-32 (Winter-Spring, 1997): 69-83.

Cavallero, Daniela. "Alatiel e Zinevra: Il 'peso' del silenzio, la leggerezza dei 'vestiti'," RLA: Romance Languages Annual 1997 9 (1998): 165-70.

Cooper, Helen. "Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales': Reviewing the Work," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 183-210.

Dobbs, Elizabeth A. "Seeing through Windows in Chaucer's Troilus," Chaucer Review 33.4 (1998): 400-22.

Edwards, Robert R. "Source, Context, and Cultural Translation in the Franklin's Tale," Modern Philology 94.2 (November, 1996): 141-62.

Falvo, Joseph. "Ritual and Ceremony in Boccaccio's Decameron," MLN 114.1 (January, 1999): 143-56.

Forni, Pier Massimo. "Boccaccio tra Dante e Cino," Quaderni d'italianistica 16.2 (autunno, 1995): 179-95.

Hillers, Delbert R. "Two Notes on the Decameron (III vii 42-43 and VIII vii 64, IX v 48):" MLN 113.1 (January, 1998): 186-91.

Maisch, William C. "Boccaccio's Teseida: The Breakdown of Difference and Ritual Sacrifice," Annali d'italianistica 15 (1997): 85-98.

Migiel, Marilyn. "Beyond Seduction: A Reading of the Tale of Alibech and Rustico ("Decameron" III, 10):" Italica 75.2 (Summer, 1998): 161-77.

———. "Encrypted Messages: Men, Women, and Figurative Language in Decameron 5.4," Philological Quarterly 77.1 (Winter, 1998): 1-13.

Moe, Nelson. "Not a Love Story: Sexual Aggression, Law and Order in Decameron X 4," Romanic Review 86.4 (November, 1995): 623-38.

Morosini, Roberta. "La 'Bele conjointure' o 'Il gioco degli incontri' in Decameron IX.6," RLA: Romance Languages Annual 1997 9 (1998): 260-65.

O'Brien, Timothy D. "Fire and Blood: Queynte Imaginings in Diana's Temple," Chaucer Review 33.2 (1998): 157-67.

Rummel, Erika. "From Boccaccio to Witzel: An Appeal to Study the Sources," Renaissance Quarterly 51.4 (Winter, 1998): 1330-35.

Stewart, Pamela D. "Boccaccio," in The Cambridge History of Italian Literature, ed. Peter Brand and Lino Pertile (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996): 70-88.

Ziolkowski, Jan M. "The Erotic Pater Noster, Redux," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 97.3 (1996): 329-32.

DISSERTATIONS:

Allman, Wendy West. "Chaucerian 'Rekenynges': Modeling Authority," Dissertation Abstracts International 58, 7 (January, 1998): 2642. [Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997; 315 p.]

Bettella, Patrizia. "Estetica del brutto: la rappresentazione della donna brutta nella letteratura italiana dalle origini a Fosca di Iginio Ugo Tarchetti," Dissertation Abstracts International 58, 4 (October, 1997): 1301. [Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1996; 315 p.]

Dietrich, Stephanie Sewell. "'Slydying' Gender in the Portraits of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde," Masters Abstracts International 35, 1 (February, 1997): 57. [M.A., University of Houston, 1996; 120 p.]

Haughey, Aislinn. "The Frescoes of the Camerca di Griselda," Masters Abstracts International 36, 2 (April, 1998): 291. [M.A., University of Alberta, 1997; 91 p.]

Kobayashi, Yoshiko. "Chivalry, Power, and Justice in Three Medieval Romances," Dissertation Abstracts International 58, 8 (February, 1998): 3144. [Ph.D., Cornell University, 1997; 348 p.]

Pennisi, Francesca Alessandra. "Endless Exchange: Money, Women and the Writing of the Decameron," Dissertation Abstracts International 59, 6 (December, 1998): 2051. [Ph.D., Yale University, 1998; 160 p.]

Rey-Lopez, Maria Auxiliadora. "The Shattered Frame in the Boccaccian Tradition of Short Fiction," Dissertation Abstracts International 59, 6 (December, 1998): 2011. [Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998; 280 p.]

Trubey, Todd Roger. "Classical Romans, Renaissance Italians, and Shakespeare: An Intertextual Study of the Relationship between Individuals and Social Systems in Literary Texts,"Dissertation Abstracts International 58, 11 (May, 1998): 4285. [Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1997; 438 p.]

BOOK REVIEWS:

Biow, Douglas. Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance Epic (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996). Reviewed by: Paul J. Archambault, Symposium 52.2 (Summer, 1998): 117-20; Jane Tylus, Speculum 74.1 (January, 1999): 126-28.

Calabrese, Michael A. Chaucer's Ovidian Arts of Love (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994). Reviewed by: Donald C. Baker, English Language Notes 34.2 (December, 1996): 76.

Forni, Pier Massimo. Adventures in Speech: Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). Reviewed by: Victoria Kirkham, Renaissance Quarterly 51.2 (Summer, 1998): 613-14; Wayne A. Rebhorn, Speculum 73.2 (April, 1998): 514-16; Janet Levarie Smarr, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 244-46.

Grudin, Michaela Paasche. Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996). Reviewed by: D. C. Baker, English Language Notes 35.1 (September, 1997): 70-71; James M. Dean, Speculum 74.1 (January, 1999): 174-76; John M. Ganim, South Atlantic Review 62.3 (Summer, 1997): 109-11; Mary F. Godfrey, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998): 262-65; Richard H. Osberg, Cithara 37.1 (November, 1997): 53-55.

Güntert, Georges. Tre premesse e una dichiarazione d'amore. Vademecum per il lettore del "Decameron" (Modena: Mucchi, 1997). Reviewed by: Stefano Giannini, MLN 114.1 (January, 1999): 196-97.

Howes, Laura L. Chaucer's Gardens and the Language of Convention (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997). Reviewed by: Kenneth Bleeth, Speculum 74.2 (April, 1999): 434-36; Velma Bourgeois Richmond, Christianity and Literature 48.1 (Autumn, 1998): 109-11.

Kellogg, Laura D. Boccaccio's and Chaucer's Cressida (New York: Peter Lang, 1995). Reviewed by: Disa Gambera, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 267-71.

Kelly, Henry Ansgar. Chaucerian Tragedy (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997). Reviewed by: Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998): 281-83.

Kirkpatrick, Robin. English and Italian Literature from Dante to Shakespeare: A Study of Source, Analogue and Divergence (London: Longman, 1995). Reviewed by: Sherry Roush, Comparative Literature Studies 35.3 (1998): 309-12.

Lessico critico decameroniano. Edited by Renzo Bragantini and Pier Massimo Forni (Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1995). Reviewed by: Eugenio L. Giusti, Speculum 72.4 (October, 1997): 1148-51.

Mazzacurati, Giancarlo. All'ombra di Dioneo. Tipologie e percorsi nella novella da Boccaccio a Bandello (Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1996). Reviewed by: William A. Therivel, Rivista di studi italiani 15.2 (dicembre, 1997): 256-61.

Ricketts, Jill M. Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of "The Decameron" from Giotto to Pasolini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Reviewed by: Richard K. Emmerson, Envoi 7.1 (Spring, 1998): 92-95; Victoria Kirkham, Renaissance Quarterly 51.4 (Winter, 1998): 1352-53.

Stillinger, Thomas C. The Song of Troilus: Lyric Authority in the Medieval Book (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). Reviewed by: Karla Taylor, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 97.1 (January, 1998): 110-12.

Stych, F. S. Boccaccio in English: A Bibliography of Editions, Adaptations, and Criticism (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995). Reviewed by: I[an] M[artin], Quaderni d'italianistica 16.2 (autunno, 1995): 330.

Thompson, N. S. Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love. A Comparative Study of "The Decameron" and "The Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). Reviewed by: George D. Economou, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998): 336-39; R. W. Hanning, Envoi 7.1 (Spring, 1998): 71-76; Janet Smarr, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 97.2 (April, 1998): 241-43.

Tinkle, Theresa. Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996). Reviewed by: Helen Phillips, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998): 340-43; M. Teresa Tavormina, Speculum 74.1 (January, 1999): 252-55.