Heliotropia 1.1 (2003)

American Boccaccio Bibliography for 2000
(through November, 2000)
[pdf]

BOOKS:

Boswell, Jackson Campbell. Dante's Fame in England. References in Printed British Books 1477-1640 (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1999): xvii, 222 p. Contains numerous references to Boccaccio.

The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales": New Essays on an Old Question, eds. Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen (Madison-Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000): 352 p. (With a Foreword by Giuseppe Mazzotta [7-8], an Introduction by Leonard Michael Koff [11-18], and an Afterword by David Wallace [317-20]. Individual essays are listed separately in this bibliography by author.)

Masciandaro, Franco. La conoscenza viva: Letture fenomenologiche da Dante a Machiavelli (Ravenna: Longo, 1998). Chapter 6: "La violenza e il giuoco nella novella di Martellino (Decameron II 1): La problematica dell'improvvisazione," 89-98.

Merchant Writers of the Italian Renaissance: From Boccaccio to Machiavelli, ed. Vittore Branca; tr. Murtha Baca (New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1999). liii, 163 p.

Russell, J. Stephen. Chaucer and the Trivium: The Mindsong of the Canterbury Tales. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. Chapter 3: "To be a man. Definition in the Knight's Tale," 98-134.

BOOK (FORTHCOMING):

Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron, ed. James H. McGregor (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2001). Lx, 207 p.

ARTICLES:

Aers, David. "Chaucer's Criseyde: Women in Society, Women in Love," in Critical Essays on Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Thomas C. Stillinger (New York: G. K. Hall, 1998): pp. 195-218.

Arese Simcik, Marichia. "I dipinti—Gli affreschi di Roccabianca (la novella di Griselda: "Decameron", X 10)," in Boccaccio visualizzato. Narrare per parole e per immagini fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. II. Opere d'arte d'origine italiana, ed. Vittore Branca, 3 vols. (Torino: Einaudi, 1999): pp. 379-83.

Beck, Eleonora M. "Music in the Cornice of Boccaccio's Decameron," Medievalia et Humanistica 24 (1997): 33-49.

Beidler, Peter G. "Just Say Yes, Chaucer Knew the Decameron: Or, Bringing the Shipman's Tale Out of Limbo," in The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales" (q.v.): pp. 25-46.

Boli, Todd. "Boccaccio, Giovanni," in The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Lansing (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000): pp. 109-15.

Bondanella, Peter. "Translating The Decameron," in The Flight of Ulysses: Studies in Memory of Emmanuel Hatzantonis, ed. Augustus A. Mastri (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Annali d'Italianistica, 1997): pp. 111-24.

Branca, Vittore. "Philology and Criticism. An Introduction to a Seminar," Italian Quarterly 37, 143-46 (Winter to Fall, 2000): 303-14.

Buettner, Brigitte. "Il commercio di immagini: i mercanti, i Rapondi e il Boccaccio in Francia," in Boccaccio visualizzato. Narrare per parole e per immagini fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. III. Opere d'arte d'origine francese, fiamminga, inglese, spagnola, tedesca, ed. Vittore Branca, 3 vols. (Torino: Einaudi, 1999): pp. 19-28.

Cherchi, Paolo. "From Controversia to Novella," in L'alambicco in biblioteca: distillari rari, ed. Francesco Guardiani and Emilio Speciale (Ravenna: Longo, 2000): pp. 119-32.

———. "Un 'dubbio' nel Decameron (X, 4, 25-27):" Rassegna europea di letteratura italiana 13 (1999): 95-98.

———. "Il veglio di Creta nell'interpretazione del Tostado. Fortuna di Dante e/o Boccaccio nella Spagna del Quattrocento," L'Alighieri 40, n.s. 14 (luglio-dicembre, 1999): 87-98.

Colish, Marcia. "Boccaccio," in Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997): pp. 217-19.

Costa-Zelessow, Natalia. "Numerical Symmetry among the Ten Narrators of The Decameron," in The Flight of Ulysses: Studies in Memory of Emmanuel Hatzantonis, ed. Augustus A. Mastri (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Annali d'Italianistica, 1997): pp. 97-110.

Edwards, Robert R. "The Desolate Palace and the Solitary City: Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Dante," Studies in Philology 96.4 (Fall, 1999): 394-416.

———. "Rewriting Menedon's Story: Decameron 10.5 and the Franklin's Tale," in The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales" (q.v.): pp. 226-46.

Feimer, Joel. "Chaucer's Selective 'Remembraunce': Ironies of 'Fyn Loving' and the Ideal Feminine," in The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne, eds. John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi (Madison-Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000): pp. 88-105.

Finlayson, John. "Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale," Studies in Philology 97.3 (Summer, 2000): 255-75.

Ganim, John M. "Chaucer, Boccaccio, Confession, and Subjectivity," in The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales" (q.v.): pp. 128-47.

Georgianna, Linda. "Anticlericalism in Boccaccio and Chaucer: The Bark and the Bite," in The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales" (q.v.): pp. 148-73.

Gilbert, Creighton. "La devozione di Giovanni Boccaccio per gli artisti e l'arte," in Boccaccio visualizzato. Narrare per parole e per immagini fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. I. Saggi generali con una prospettiva dal barocco a oggi, ed. Vittore Branca, 3 vols. (Torino: Einaudi, 1999): pp. 145-53.

Grossvogel, Steven. "What Do We Really Know of Ser Ciappelletto?" Il Veltro 40 (1996): 133-37.

Haahr, Joan G. "Justifying Love: The Classical Recusatio in Medieval Love Literature," in Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid through Chaucer, eds. James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee (Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania: Susquehanna University Press, 1998): pp. 39-61.

Hanning, Robert W. "The Body of/as Evidence: Desire, Eloquence, and the Construction of Society in Decameron 7.8," in The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne, eds. John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi (Madison-Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000): pp. 269-93.

———. "'And countrefete the speche of every man / He koude, whan he sholde telle a tale': Toward a Lapsarian Poetics for The Canterbury Tales," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21 (1999): 29-58.

———. "Custance and Ciappelletto in the Middle of It All: Problems of Mediation in the Man of Law's Tale and Decameron 1.1," in The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales" (q.v.): pp. 177-211.

Iannace, Florinda M. "Aspetti etici e la Vergine Maria nella vita e nelle opere di Giovanni Boccaccio," in Maria Vergine nella letteratura italiana, ed. Florinda M. Iannace (Stony Brook, NY: Forum Italicum Publishing, 2000): pp. 109-24.

Javitch, Daniel. "Gabriel Gioliti's 'Packaging' of Ariosto, Boccaccio and Petrarch in the Mid-Cinquecento," in Studies for Dante. Essays in Honor of Dante Della Terza, eds. Franco Fido, Rena A. Syska-Lamparska, and Pamela D. Stewart (Fiesole: Edizioni Cadmo, 1998): 123-33.

Kirkham, Victoria. "L'immagine di Giovanni Boccaccio nella memoria tardo-gotica e rinascimentale," in Boccaccio visualizzato. Narrare per parole e per immagini fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. I. Saggi generali con una prospettiva dal barocco a oggi, ed. Vittore Branca, 3 vols. (Torino: Einaudi, 1999): pp. 85-144.

Koff, Leonard Michael. "Imagining Absence: Chaucer's Griselda and Walter without Petrarch," in The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales" (q.v.): pp. 278-316.

Marchesi, Simone. "Lisabetta e Didone: una proposta per Decameron IV, 5," Studi sul Boccaccio 27 (1999): 137-48.

McGregor, James H. "The Knight's Tale and Trecento Italian Historiography," in The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales" (q.v.): pp. 212-25.

Morosini, Roberta. "La 'morte verbale' nel Filocolo. Il viaggio di Florio dall' 'imaginare' al 'vero conoscimento'," Studi sul Boccaccio 27 (1999): 183-203.

Neuse, Richard. "The Monk's De casibus: The Boccaccio Case Reopened," in The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales" (q.v.): pp. 247-77.

Pacifici, Sara. "Alfonso Martínez de Toledo y Giovanni Bocaccio: Un análisis de la relación entre el Arcipestre de Talavera e Il Corbaccio," Cincinnati Romance Review 17 (1998): 93-98.

Papio, Michael. "'Non meno di compassion piena che dilettevole': Notes on Compassion in Boccaccio," Italian Quarterly 37, 143-46 (Winter to Fall, 2000): 107-25.

Paxson, James J. "The Semiotics of Character, Trope, and Troilus: The Figural Construction of the Self and the Discourse of Desire in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde," in Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid through Chaucer, eds. James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee (Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania: Susquehanna University Press, 1998): pp. 206-26.

Pearcy, Roy J. "An Anglo-Norman Prose Tale and the Source of the Seventh Novel of the Seventh Day of the Decameron," Comparative Literature Studies 37.4 (2000): 284-401.

Psaki, Regina. "Boccaccio and Female Sexuality: Gendered and Eroticized Landscapes," in The Flight of Ulysses: Studies in Memory of Emmanuel Hatzantonis, ed. Augustus A. Mastri (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Annali d'Italianistica, 1997): pp. 125-34.

Reale, Nancy M. "Reading the Language of Love: Boccaccio's Filostrato as Intermediary between the Commedia and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde," in Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid through Chaucer, eds. James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee (Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania: Susquehanna University Press, 1998): pp. 165-76.

Riva, Massimo. "Hereos/Eleos: L'ambivalente terapia del mal d'amore nel libro chiamato Decameron cognominato prencipe Galeotto," Italian Quarterly 37, 143-46 (Winter to Fall, 2000): 69-106.

Scaglione, Aldo. "Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the Mercantile Ethic," in Essays on the Arts of Discourse: Linguistics, Rhetoric, Poetics, eds. Paolo Cherchi, Stephen Murphy, Allen Mandelbaum, and Giuseppe Velli (New York: Peter Lang, 1998): pp. 121-38.

———. "Storytelling, the Novella, and the Decameron," in Essays on the Arts of Discourse: Linguistics, Rhetoric, Poetics, ed. Paolo Cherchi, Stephen Murphy, Allen Mandelbaum, and Giuseppe Velli (New York: Peter Lang, 1998): pp. 353-74.

Schildgen, Brenda Deen. "Boethius and the Consolation of Literature in Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," in The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales" (q.v.): pp. 102-27.

Smarr, Janet Levarie. "Boccaccio, Giovanni," in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul F. Grendler (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999): pp. 235-40.

———. "Other Races and Other Places in the Decameron," Studi sul Boccaccio 27 (1999): 113-36.

Stein, Robert M. "The Conquest of Femenye: Desire, Power, and Narrative in Chaucer's Knight's Tale," in Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid through Chaucer, eds. James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee (Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania: Susquehanna University Press, 1998): pp. 188-205.

Taylor, Karla. "Chaucer's Uncommon Voice: Some Contexts for Influence," in The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales" (q.v.): pp. 47-82.

Thompson, N. S. "Local Historie/s: Characteristic Worlds in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales," in The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales" (q.v.): pp. 85-101.

Watson, Paul F. "Architettura e scultura e senso della narrazione: Guido Cavalcanti e le case dei morti," in Boccaccio visualizzato. Narrare per parole e per immagini fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. I. Saggi generali con una prospettiva dal barocco a oggi, ed. Vittore Branca, 3 vols. (Torino: Einaudi, 1999): pp. 75-84.

West, Rebecca. "Decameron II, 2: A Dream Trip," Italian Quarterly 37, 143-46 (Winter to Fall, 2000): 127-42.

Wheeler, Jim. "'Peple' and 'Parlement': An Examination of the Prisoner Exchanges Depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato," English Language Notes 37.3 (March, 2000): 11-24.

DISSERTATIONS:

Baldassarri, Stefano Ugo. "Mythography and Rhetoric in Quattrocento Florence," Dissertation Abstracts International 60, 5 (November, 1999): 1547. [Ph.D., Yale University, 1999, 350 p.]

Cahill, Courtney M. "Boccaccio's Decameron and the Fictions of Progress," Dissertation Abstracts International 60, 5 (November, 1999): 1542. [Ph.D., Princeton University, 1999, 228 p.]

Morosini, Roberta. "Per 'difetto rintegrare': Una lettura del Filocolo di Giovanni Boccaccio," Dissertation Abstracts International 60, 12 (June, 2000): 4419. [Ph.D., McGill University, 1998, 174 p.]

Ricci, Roberta. "Il commento d'autore. Boccaccio, Tasso, Foscolo, Saba," Dissertation Abstracts International 60, 4 (October, 1999): 1156. [Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1999, 305 p.]

REVIEWS:

Biow, Douglas. Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance Epic (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996). Reviewed by: Michael Murrin, Modern Philology 97.4 (May, 2000): 566-69.

Bruni, Francesco. Testi e chierici del medioevo (Genova: Marietti, 1991). Reviewed by: Emanuele Banfi, Romance Philology 52.2 (Spring, 1999): 151-55.

Chance, Jane. The Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulation of Sexual Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995). Reviewed by: William F. Hodapp, Manuscripta 40.3 (November, 1996): 183-87.

Grieve, Patricia E. "Floire and Blancheflor" and the European Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Reviewed by: Marie-José Heijkant, Zeitschrift fuer romanische Philologie 116.2 (2000): 321-25; Barbara F. Weissberger, Speculum 75.1 (January, 2000): 186-88.

Howes, Laura L. Chaucer's Gardens and the Language of Convention (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997). Reviewed by: Carol F. Heffernan, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 98.4 (October, 1999): 555-56.

Kelly, Henry Ansgar. Chaucerian Tragedy (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1997). Reviewed by: Piero Boitani, Speculum 75.1 (January, 2000): 204-06.

Russell, J. Stephen. Chaucer and the Trivium: The Mindsong of the Canterbury Tales (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998). Reviewed by: John M. Hill, South Atlantic Review 64.4 (Fall, 1999): 138-41; Anne Laskaya, Rhetorica 18.1 (Winter, 2000): 106-08; Theresa M. Krier, Arthuriana 10.3 (Fall, 2000): 119-20.

Una sacra rappresentazione profana. Fortune di Griselda nel Quattrocento italiano, ed. Raffaele Morabito (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1993). Reviewed by: Francesca Savoia, Romance Philology 52.1 (Fall, 1998): 198-200.

Stone, Gregory B. The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998). Reviewed by: Jonathan Usher, Medium Aevum 69.1 (2000): 163-64.

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: Karla Taylor, Modern Philology 97.3 (February, 2000): 445-51.

Wallace, David. Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997). Reviewed by: Louise Fradenberg, Modern Philology 98.1 (August, 2000): 10-16; R. James Goldstein, Southern Humanities Review 33.3 (Summer, 1999): 287-94; R. W. Hanning, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21 (1999): 397-400.