Heliotropia 1.1 (2003)

American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1999
(through November, 1999)
[pdf]

BOOKS:

Andretta, Helen Ruth. Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde": A Poet's Response to Ockhamism. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. 201 p. (Studies in the Humanities: Literature--Politics--Society, 29)

Bisson, Lillian M. Chaucer and the Late Medieval World. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. x, 294 p.

Giusti, Eugenio L. Dall'amore cortese alla comprensione: il viaggio ideologico di Giovanni Boccaccio dalla "Caccia di Diana" al "Decameron." Milano: LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 1999. 188 p.

Stone, Gregory B. The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 250 p.

ARTICLES:

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

Battles, Dominique. "Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and Boccaccio's Filocolo Reconsidered," Chaucer Review 34.1 (1999): 38-59.

Brown, Virginia. "Between the Convent and the Court: Boccaccio and a Benevental Gradual from Naples," in Gli Zibaldoni di Boccaccio: memoria, scrittura, riscrittura. Atti del Seminario internazionale di Firenze-Certaldo (26-28 aprile 1996): eds. Michelangelo Picone and Claude Cazale Berard (Firenze: Franco Cesati, 1998): pp. 307-13.

Carù, Paola. "'Literary Cannibalism' in Boccaccio's Corbaccio," Italian Culture 16.2 (1998): 39-48.

Di Biase, Carmine. "Castiglione and Boccaccio in Elizabethan Short Fiction," in Pluralism & Critical Practice: Essays in Honor of Albert N. Mancini, eds. Paolo A. Giordano and Anthony Julian Tamburri (West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera, 1999): pp. 77-88.

Dutschke, Dennis. "Il libro miscellaneo: problemi di metodo tra Boccaccio e Petrarca," in Gli Zibaldoni di Boccaccio: memoria, scrittura, riscrittura. Atti del Seminario internazionale di Firenze-Certaldo (26-28 aprile 1996): eds. Michelangelo Picone and Claude Cazalé Bérard (Firenze: Franco Cesati, 1998): pp. 95-112.

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

Federico, Sylvia. "Chaucer's Utopian Troy Book: Alternatives to Historiography in Troilus and Criseyde," Exemplaria 11.1 (Spring, 1999): 79-106.

Ferreri, Rosario. "Il motivo erotico-osceno nella cornice del Decameron," Studi sul Boccaccio 26 (1998): 165-78.

Forni, Pier Massimo. "La realizzazione narrativa in Boccaccio," in Gli Zibaldoni di Boccaccio: memoria, scrittura, riscrittura. Atti del Seminario internazionale di Firenze-Certaldo (26-28 aprile 1996): eds. Michelangelo Picone and Claude Cazale Berard (Firenze: Franco Cesati, 1998): pp. 415-23.

Gertz, SunHee Kim. "The 'Descriptio' in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde," Papers on Language and Literature 35.2 (Spring, 1999): 141-66.

Gittes, Tobias Foster. "Boccaccio's 'Valley of Women': Fetishized Foreplay in Decameron VI," Italica 76.2 (Summer, 1999): 147-74.

Grady, Frank. "The Boethian Reader of Troilus and Criseyde," Chaucer Review 33.3 (1999): 230-51.

Hollander, Robert. "Boccaccio, Ovid's Ibis, and the Satirical Tradition," in Gli Zibaldoni di Boccaccio: memoria, scrittura, riscrittura. Atti del Seminario internazionale di Firenze-Certaldo (26-28 aprile 1996): eds. Michelangelo Picone and Claude Cazale Berard (Firenze: Franco Cesati, 1998): pp. 385-99.

Kirkham, Victoria. "Decoration and Iconography of Lydgate's Fall of Princes (De Casibus) at the Philadelphia Rosenbach," Studi sul Boccaccio 25 (1997): 297-310.

———. "Iohannes de Certaldo: la firma dell'autore," in Gli Zibaldoni di Boccaccio: memoria, scrittura, riscrittura. Atti del Seminario internazionale di Firenze-Certaldo (26-28 aprile 1996): eds. Michelangelo Picone and Claude Cazale Berard (Firenze: Franco Cesati, 1998): pp. 455-68.

———. "A Pedigree for Courtesy: 'Purser' Cured a Miser (Decameron I, 8):" Studi sul Boccaccio 25 (1997): 213-38.

Langer, Ullrich. "The Renaissance Novella as Justice," Renaissance Quarterly 52.2 (Summer, 1999): 311-41.

Morosini, Roberta. "'Per difetto rintegrare,' ovvero, il Filocolo di G. Boccaccio." In Bollettino dell'Accademia lucchese di Arti, Lettere e Scienze 3 (1997): 14-20.

Perry, Alan R. "'L'abito non fa il monaco': Disguise, Confession and Anticlericalism in Boccaccio's Tedaldo Tale (Decameron III, 7):" in Pluralism & Critical Practice: Essays in Honor of Albert N. Mancini, eds. Paolo A. Giordano and Anthony Julian Tamburri (West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera, 1999): pp. 247-62.

Stierle, Karlheinz. "Three Moments in the Crisis of Exemplarity: Boccaccio-Petrarch, Montaigne, and Cervantes," Journal of the History of Ideas 59.4 (October, 1998): 581-95.

BOOK (FORTHCOMING):

Morosini, Roberta. 'Per difetto rintegrare.' Una lettura del Filocolo di G. Boccaccio. Roma: Euroma.

ARTICLE (FORTHCOMING):

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

DISSERTATIONS:

Dezur, Kathryn Michelle. "The Dangerous Pleasure of Reading: The Erotics of Interpretation and Female Sexuality in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature," Dissertation Abstracts International 60, 2 (August, 1999): 414. [Ph.D., The Claremont Graduate University, 1999, 313 p.]

Stanley, Harland Jay. "The Resilience of the Human Spirit as Seen through Petrarch and Boccaccio," Dissertation Abstracts International 59, 10 (April, 1999): 3924. [Ph.D., The Union Institute, 1998, 175 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: A[ntonio] F[ranceschetti], Quaderni d'italianistica 17.2 (autunno, 1996): 154-55.

Branca, Vittore. "Con amore volere": Narrar di mercatanti fra Boccaccio e Machiavelli (Venezia: Marsilio, 1996). Reviewed by: A[ntonio] F[ranceschetti], Quaderni d'italianistica 17.2 (autunno, 1996): 155.

Buettner, Brigitte. Boccaccio's "Des cleres et nobles femmes": Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript (Seattle: College Art Association in association with University of Washington Press, 1996). Reviewed by: Lucy Freeman Sandler, Speculum 74.3 (July, 1999): 701-04.

Coleman, William E. Watermarks in the Manuscripts of Boccaccio's "Il Teseida": A Catalogue, Codicological Study and Album (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1997). Reviewed by: Susy Marcon, Studi sul Boccaccio 26 (1998): 305-07.

Forni, Pier Massimo. Adventures in Speech: Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's "Decameron" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). Reviewed by: Nella Giannetto, Studi sul Boccaccio 25 (1997): 387-92; Sherry Roush, Quaderni d'italianistica 17.1 (primavera, 1996): 141-42; Susanne Sara Thomas, Romance Quarterly 45.3 (Summer, 1998): 191-92.

Grieve, Patricia E. Floire and Blancheflor and the European Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Reviewed by: Gloria Allaire, Annali d'Italianistica 16 (1998): 388-89.

Grudin, Michaela Paasche. Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996). Reviewed by: James M. Dean, Speculum 74.1 (January, 1999): 174-76.

Hollander, Robert. Boccaccio's Dante and the Shaping Force of Satire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997). Reviewed by: Attilio Bettinzoli, Studi sul Boccaccio 25 (1997): 393-95.

Menocal, María Rosa. Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccaccio (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991). Reviewed by: John Dagenais, Hispanic Review 67.2 (Spring, 1999): 250-53.

Stych, F. S. Boccaccio in English: A Bibliography of Editions, Adaptations, and Criticism (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995). Reviewed by: Anna Laura Lepschy, Studi sul Boccaccio 25 (1997): 401-02.

Tinkle, Theresa. Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996). Reviewed by: Velma Bourgeois Richmond, Christianity and Literature 47.1 (Autumn, 1997): 91-93.

Wallace, David. Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997). Reviewed by: Catherine S. Cox, Annali d'Italianistica 16 (1998): 389-92; Angus Somerville, Quaderni d'italianistica 18.2 (autunno, 1997): 283-85.