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1	The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio more books like this by Professor Giovanni Boccaccio add to wishlist The medieval masterpiece, set against the backdrop of the Black Death of 1348, is now available in this authoritative English-language translation. The 100 linked tales in Boccaccio's masterpiece are peopled by nobles, knights, nuns, doctors, lovers--all of whom are both faithful and faithless. Unabashedly earthy in its sensuality, "The Decameron" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Decameron and the Philosophy of Storytelling: Author as Midwife and Pimp more books like this by Richard Francis Kuhns add to wishlist In this creative and engaging reading, Richard Kuhns explores the ways in which Decameron'ssexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral argument, and aesthetic and literary criticism. As he reveals the stories' many philosophical insights and literary pleasures, Kuhns also examines Decameronin the context of the nature of storytelling, ... see all copies from $3.18! new only from $5.94! \| first editions
3	Boccaccio's Des Cleres Et Nobles Femmes: Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript more books like this by Brigitte Buettner add to wishlist Buettner (art, Smith College) provides a detailed examination of the French translation of Boccaccio's illuminated manuscript De Mulieribus Claris , known as the Cleres Femmes . After considering the manuscript as a commercial and cultural object, Buettner provides a semiotics-inspired exploration see all copies from $11.99!
4	Boccaccio: The Man and His Works more books like this by Vittore Branca, Dennis J McCauliffe (Editor), Richard Monges (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.99! first editions
5	Boccaccio, Beauvau, Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde: Four Perspectives on Influence more books like this by Michael G Hanly add to wishlist see all copies from $3.11! new only from $3.11! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Visualizing Boccaccio more books like this by Jill M Ricketts, Norman Bryson (Editor) add to wishlist Visualizing Boccaccio represents a new approach to the interpretation of Boccaccio's classic book of erotic tales, The Decameron. In a comparison of selected tales from The Decameron with works by Cimabue and Giotto, fifteenth-century manuscript illumination, a series of paintings by Botticelli, and Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinematic interpretation ... see all copies from $28.75! new only from $28.75! \| first editions
7	Boccaccio more books like this by Thomas Goddard Bergin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
8	Boccaccio & Fiammetta more books like this by Janet Levarie Smarr add to wishlist see all copies from $8.19! first editions \| SVS
9	Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire more books like this by Robert Hollander add to wishlist Fresh views about Boccaccio's reliance on Dante see all copies from $45.00! new only from $77.79!
10	Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio more books like this by David Wallace add to wishlist David Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of Boccaccio. Previous studies of the relationship between the work of the two poets have tended to consider Chaucer's borrowings without making a thorough ... see all copies from $39.37! new only from $76.81! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Diana's Hunt - Caccia Di Diana: Boccaccio's First Fiction more books like this by Anthony K. Cassell (Editor), Victoria Kirkham (Editor), Giovanni Boccaccio add to wishlist Giovanni Boccaccio is one of the most influential writers in the Western tradition, yet his first literary work, "Diana's Hunt", has never been translated into English, and the Italian text has long been out of print. Anthony Cassell and Victoria Kirkham redeem Boccaccio's early effort in this dual-language edition. The plot of "Diana's Hunt" is ... see all copies from $13.20! new only from $14.50! \| first editions
12	Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity more books like this by Robert Edwards add to wishlist In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invented two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements - antiquity and late medieval modernity. Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which ... see all copies from $55.00! new only from $120.15! \| signed copies \| SVS
13	Boccaccio: Decameron more books like this by David Wallace, J P Stern (Editor) add to wishlist In Boccaccio's innovative text, ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new and familiar conflicts from private and public ... see all copies from $4.49! new only from $20.25! \| SVS
14	Translating the Past: Laurent de Premierfait and Boccaccio's de Casibus more books like this by Anne D Hedeman add to wishlist In 1409 Laurent de Premierfait (c. 1380-1418) produced a French translation of Boccaccio's "De casibus virorum illustrium" ("On the Fates of Famous Men"), a fourteenth-century text containing cautionary historical tales about the corrupting effects of power. Richly illustrated copies of the translation, known as "Des cas des nobles homes et femmes ... see all copies from $38.66! new only from $38.66!
15	Boccaccio's Heroines: Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society more books like this by Margaret Ann Franklin add to wishlist In contrast to earlier scholars who have seen Boccaccio's "Famous Women" as incoherent and fractured, Franklin argues that the text offers a remarkably consistent, coherent and comprehensible treatise concerning the appropriate functioning of women in society. In this cross disciplinary study of a seminal work of literature and its broader ... see all copies from $68.96! new only from $102.40!
16 view cover	Boccaccios Decameron more books like this by James H McGregor (Editor) add to wishlist Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and ... see all copies from $10.95! new only from $14.55! \| SVS
17 view cover	Chaucer's Boccaccio: Sources for Troilus and the Knight's and Franklin's Tales: Translations from the more books like this by Nicholas R Havely, Professor Giovanni Boccaccio, Nick R Havely (Translator) add to wishlist "The notes are a model of economy...The introduction is quite superb...The volume as a whole is a worthy addition to a series which has already begun to establish high expectations." - "Times Higher Education Supplement". "It reminds us just how good Boccaccio is." - "Times Literary Supplement". Chaucer made extensive use of Boccacio's romances as ... see all copies from $13.51! new only from $31.39! \| SVS
18 view cover	Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction more books like this by Victoria Kirkham add to wishlist An exploration of Boccaccio's "Filocolo"--its cultural and historical context--and a defense against modern criticism see all copies from $57.50! new only from $77.79!
19 view cover	Decameron: Its Sources and Analogues more books like this by A Collingwood Lee add to wishlist A systematic, day-by-day treatment of the Decameron which calls up each section of the work and presents an exhaustive record of the known sources as discovered by the author. Though written in 1909, this remains the essential handbook to Decameron studies. Gives a detailed history of the antecedents of Boccaccio's famous work, showing how it ... see all copies from $31.06! new only from $31.06! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Boccaccioa's Naked Muse: Eros, Culture, and the Mythopoeic Imagination more books like this by Tobias Foster Gittes add to wishlist Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented with such a wide variety of genres that critics have tended to focus more on the differences among his works than on their underlying similarities. However, a more comprehensive examination of his corpus reveals that concealed beneath this striking diversity of subject and genre there is a coherent ... see all copies from $49.95! new only from $69.00!
21	Narrative Intellection in the Decameron more books like this by Stavros Deligiorgis add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00!
22	Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio: Studies in the Italian Trecento in Honor of Charles S. Singleton more books like this by Aldo S. Bernardo (Editor), Anthony L. Pellegrini (Editor), Charles Southward Singleton add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! first editions
23	Nature and Reason in the Decameron more books like this by Robert Alistair Bartle Hastings add to wishlist see all copies from $12.50!
24	Boccaccio's Two Venuses more books like this by Robert Hollander add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! first editions
25 view cover	Pasolini, Chaucer and Boccaccio: Two Medieval Texts and Their Translation to Film more books like this by Agnes Blandeau add to wishlist Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini's "trilogy of life," a series of three cinematic adaptations of medieval texts, includes "The Decameron" (1970), "The Canterbury Tales" (1971) and "Arabian Nights" (1973). Much more than simple retellings, the films demonstrate a modern auteur's purposefully idealized and stylized vision of the period, and ... see all copies from $52.87! new only from $52.87!

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