Heliotropia 1.1 (2003)

American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1988
(through November, 1989)
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CRITICAL STUDIES (BOOKS):

Boitani, Piero. The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

Calvino, Italo. Six Memos for the Next Millennium, tr. Patrick Creagh (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988).

CRITICAL STUDIES (ARTICLES):

Anderson, David. "An Early Reference to the Teseida," Studi sul Boccaccio, 16 (1987): 325-28.

———. "The Fourth Temple of The Knight's Tale: Athenian Clemency and Chaucer's Theseus," Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Proceedings 2 (1986 [1987]): 113-25.

———. "An Illustrated De Casibus in Washington, D.C.," Studi sul Boccaccio 16 (1987): 241-45.

———. "Mythology or Historiography? The Interpretation of Theban Myths in Late Medieval Literature," Florilegium 8 (1986): 113-39.

Bauer, Kate A. "Criseyde's Routhe," Comitatus 19 (1988): 1-19.

Boli, Todd. "Boccaccio's Trattatello in laude di Dante, Or Dante Resartus," Renaissance Quarterly 41.3 (Autumn, 1988): 389-412.

Brownlee, Marina S. "Language and Incest in Grisel y Mirabella," Romanic Review 79.1 (January, 1988): 107-28.

Cestaro, Gary P. "Rinaldo D'Asti: Drama of the Signifié," Carte Italiane 7 (1985-86): 14-27.

Cook, Mary Joan. "The Double Role of Criseyde in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde," Florilegium 8 (1986): 187-98.

Cottino-Jones, Marga. "La novellistica e le arti figurative," Letteratura italiana e arti figurative, Atti del XII Convegno dell'Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana (Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, 6-10 maggio 1985), a cura di Antonio Franceschetti, 3 vols. (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1988): II: 525-34.

De Rachewiltz, Siegfried. "Boccaccio's Siren and Her Legacy," De Sirenibus: An Inquiry into Sirens from Homer to Shakespeare (New York: Garland, 1987): 161-87.

Ferreri, Rosario. "Rito battesimale e comparatico nelle novelle senesi della VII giornata," Studi sul Boccaccio 16 (1987): 306-14.

Forni, Pier Massimo. "Forme innocue nel Decameron," MLN 104.1 (January, 1989): 39-47.

Gerlach, John. "The Decameron: Closure, Cruelty, and Recreation - Medieval and Modern," Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 11, No. 37 (1988): 113-27.

Gilbert, Creighton. "On Castagno's Nine Famous Men and Women: Sword and Book as the Basis for Public Service," Life and Death in Fifteenth-Century Florence, edited by Marcel Tetel, Ronald G. Witt, and Rona Goffen, Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 10 (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1989): 174-92.

Grossvogel, Steven. "Astrology in Boccaccio's Filocolo," Italiana 1987: Selected Papers from the Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian 2 (1989): 143-55.

Guardiani, Francesco. "Boccaccio dal Filocolo al Decameron: Variazioni di poetica e di retorica dall'esame di due racconti," Carte Italiane 7 (1985-86): 28-46.

Guidotti, Angela. "Il doppio gioco della Calandria," MLN 104.1 (January, 1989): 98-116.

Hardin, Richard F. "Milton's Nimrod," Milton Quarterly 22.2 (May, 1988): 38-44.

Heinegg, Peter. "La Donna e il doglio: Discorso femminista e iconografia 'sessista' nel Decameron," Letteratura italiana e arti figurative, Atti del XII Convegno dell'Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana (Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, 6-10 maggio 1985): a cura di Antonio Franceschetti, 3 vols. (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1988): I: 317-21.

Illiano, Antonio. "Motivazioni etico-affettive e tensione anagogica nel Corbaccio," Forum Italicum 23.1-2 (Spring-Fall, 1989): 147-67.

Johnson, Lynn Staley. "The Clerk's Tale and the Arts of Narrative Manipulation," Mediaevalia 11 (1989 for 1985): 121-38.

Kallendorf, Craig. "Boccaccio's Two Didos: Virgil, Petrarca, and 'Il Più Grande Discepolo'," in In Praise of Aeneas: Virgil and Epideitic Rhetoric in the Early Italian Renaissance (Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1989): 58-76.

Kirkham, Victoria. "Boccaccio visualizzato II: Portraits of Boccaccio: a) First Addenda and Corrigenda to A Preliminary List of Boccaccio Portraits, b) Renaissance Portraits of Boccaccio: A Look into the Kaleidoscope," Studi sul Boccaccio 16 (1987): 274-304.

———. "Boccaccio's Dedication to Women in Love," Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, eds. Andrew Morrough, Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi, Piero Morselli, and Eve Borsook, 2 vols. (Firenze: Giunti Barbèra, 1985): 333-43.

Losse, Deborah N. "From 'Auctor' to 'Auteur': Authorization and Appropriation in the Renaissance," Medievalia et Humanistica, 16 (1988): 153-63.

Lynch, Kathryn L. "Despoiling Griselda: Chaucer's Walter and the Problem of Knowledge in The Clerk's Tale," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 10 (1988): 41-70.

McGregor, James H. "The Medieval Art of Imitation and Chaucer's Legenda Tesbe," Mediaevalia 9 (1986 for 1983): 181-203.

Mendelsohn, Leatrice. "Boccaccio, Betussi e Michelangelo: ritratti delle donne illustri come Vite Parallele," Letteratura italiana e arti figurative, Atti del XII Convegno dell'Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana (Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, 6-10 maggio 1985): a cura di Antonio Franceschetti, 3 vols. (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1988): I: 323-34.

Miller, Rachel. "Physic for the Great: Dryden's Satiric Translations of Juvenal, Persius, and Boccaccio," Philological Quarterly 68.1 (Winter, 1989): 53-75.

Muto, Lisa M. "A proposito della cornice del Decameron: interpretazione e illustrazione," Letteratura italiana e arti figurative, Atti del XII Convegno dell'Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana (Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, 6-10 maggio 1985): a cura di Antonio Franceschetti, 3 vols. (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1988): I: 291-301.

Pearsall, Derek. "Criseyde's Choices," Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Proceedings 2 (1986 [1987]): 17-29.

Sanders, Elma. "Osservazioni sulla cornice nella pittura e nella letteratura del Trecento e del Quattrocento," Letteratura italiana e arti figurative, Atti del XII Convegno dell'Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana (Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, 6-10 maggio 1985): a cura di Antonio Franceschetti, 3 vols. (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1988): I: 375-82.

Smarr, Janet Levarie. "Ovid and Boccaccio: A Note on Self-Defense," Mediaevalia 13 (1987): 247-55.

Stewart, Pamela D. "L'arte e la natura nel gusto figurativo del Petrarca e del Boccaccio," Letteratura italiana e arti figurative, Atti del XII Convegno dell'Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana (Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, 6-10 maggio 1985): a cura di Antonio Franceschetti, 3 vols. (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1988): I: 41-60.

Storey, H. Wayne. "Publishing, Plagiarism and Technocracy in Petrarch's Time," Italian Journal, 2.4 (Fall, 1988): 43-46.

Tinkle, Teresa. "Saturn of the Several Faces: A Survey of the Medieval Mythographic Traditions," Viator 18 (1987): 289-307.

Wack, Mary. "Pandarus, Poetry, and Healing," Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Proceedings 2 (1986 [1987]): 127-33.

Watson, Paul F. "Boccaccio visualizzato II: More Subjects from Boccaccio in Italian Renaissance Painting," Studi sul Boccaccio 16 (1987): 273-74.

DISSERTATIONS:

Gunnell, Donna Denise Prescott. "Des contes à rire: Chaucer's and Boccaccio's Adaptations of Certain Old French Fabliaux," Dissertation Abstracts International 50.2 (August, 1989): 439-A.

Hanly, Michael Gerard. "The Relation of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde to the Roman de Troyle of Beauvais, Seneschal of Anjou," Dissertation Abstracts International 49.8 (February, 1989): 2213-A.

McLeod, Glenda Kaye. "Beauty and the Beast: Catalogues of Good Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance," Dissertation Abstracts International 49.3 (September, 1988): 501-A.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Biasin, Gian Paolo, Albert N. Mancini, and Nicolas J. Perella, eds. Studies in the Italian Renaissance: Essays in Memory of Arnolfo B. Ferruolo (Napoli: Società Editrice Napoletana, 1985). Rev. Paola Zito. Esperienze letterarie 11.1 (gennaio-marzo, 1986): 131-34.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. L'Ameto, tr. Judith Serafini Sauli (New York and London: Garland, 1985). Rev. Dino S. Cervigni. Annali d'Italianistica 6 (1988): 301-04; Annabelle Fersch. Allegorica 9 (Winter-Summer, 1987-1988): 298-99.

———. Amorosa visione, ed. and tr. Robert Hollander, Timothy Hampton, and Margherita Frankel. Introduction by Vittore Branca. Bilingual ed. (Hanover, NH, and London: University Press of New England, 1986). Rev. Dino S. Cervigni, Annali d'Italianistica 6 (1988): 301-04; SYLVIA HUOT. Italica 66.1 (Spring, 1989): 42-44; Anna Laura Lepschy, Studi sul Boccaccio 16 (1987): 402-03; Janet Levarie Smarr, Italian Culture 7 (1986-1989): 137-38.

———. Eclogues, tr. Janet Levarie Smarr (New York: Garland, 1987). Rev. Dino S. Cervigni, Annali d'Italianistica 6 (1988): 301-04; John B. Dillon, Italica 66.1 (Spring, 1989): 44-47.

———. Il Filocolo, tr. Donald Cheney with the collaboration of Thomas G. Bergin (New York: Garland, 1985). Rev. Dino S. Cervigni, Annali d'Italianistica 6 (1988): 301-04.

———. Il Filostrato, Italian text ed. Vincenzo Pernicone, tr. Robert P. Roberts and Anna Bruni Seldis (New York: Garland, 1986). Rev. C. David Benson, Speculum 64.1 (January, 1989): 125; Dino S. Cervigni, Annali d'Italianistica 6 (1988): 301-04; David Wallace, Italica 66.1 (Spring, 1989): 48-49.

Calvino, Italo. Six Memos for the Next Millennium, tr. Patrick Creagh (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988). Rev. Craig R. Frisch, MLN 104.1 (January, 1989): 259-63.

De Rachewiltz, Siegfried. De Sirenibus: An Inquiry into Sirens from Homer to Shakespeare (New York: Garland, 1987). Rev. Calvin S. Brown, Sewanee Review 96.4 (Fall, 1988): lxxx-lxxxi.

Holmes, George. Florence, Rome and the Origin of the Renaissance (Oxford-New York: Clarendon Press, 1986). Rev. Francesco C. Cesareo, Sixteenth Century Journal 19.3 (Fall, 1988): 497; Giuseppe Mazzotta, Renaissance Quarterly 41.1 (Spring, 1988): 112-14; Anthony Molho, Speculum 64.3 (July, 1989): 713-15.

Mazzotta, Giuseppe. The World at Play in Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). Rev. Anna Laura Lepschy, Studi sul Boccaccio 16 (1987): 397-99; Millicent Marcus, Italica 66.2 (Summer, 1989): 227-30; Wayne A. Rebhorn, Modern Philology 86.2 (November, 1988): 202-05.

Newman, John Kevin. The Classical Epic Tradition (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1986). Rev. David Quint, Modern Philology 86.4 (May, 1989): 417.

Smarr, Janet Levarie. Boccaccio and Fiammetta: The Narrator as Lover (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986). Rev. Marga Cottino-Jones, Italica 66.3 (Autumn, 1989): 371-72; Anna Laura Lepschy, Studi sul Boccaccio 16 (1987): 399-402.

Stewart, Pamela D. Retorica e mimica nel "Decameron" e nella commedia del Cinquecento (Firenze: Olschki, 1986). Rev. Salvatore Di Maria, Annali d'Italianistica 6 (1988): 305-06.

Wood, Chauncey. The Elements of Chaucer's Troilus (Durham: Duke University Press, 1984). Rev. Steve Ellis, Italian Studies 41 (1986): 134-35.

STUDIES FORTHCOMING:

Causa-Steindler, Mariangela, tr. The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)