The Decameron first day in perspective : volume one of the Lecturae Boccaccii / edited by Elissa B. Weaver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weaver, Elissa, 1940- editor.

Series:

Toronto Italian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.

Boccaccio, Giovanni.

Decamerone (Boccaccio, Giovanni).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is the best known and most read work in Italian literature next to Dante's Divine Comedy. In the tradition of Lectura Dantis, the practice of story-by-story critical readings of Dante's work, Elissa Weaver has collected essays from some of the most prominent American Boccaccio scholars to provide critical readings of the Decameron Proem, Introduction, and the ten stories that constitute the first of the ten 'days' of storytelling. The first of the twelve essays opens the volume with a consideration of the Proem, demonstrating the importance of Boccaccio's literary subtexts (Ovidian and Dantean) for understanding his poetics. The second essay, on the Introduction, discusses the title of the work and the framing tale. The remaining ten contributions treat in detail each story, examining the literary, ethical, and social concerns embodied in the short narratives and in the context provided by the comments and discussions of the story-tellers, and exploring the intertextual relations within the Decameron and with sources and analogues. This inaugural book in a new series of critical essays on the Decameron will provide an important guide to reading the complex series of narratives that constitute the opening of the Decameron and will serve as a guide to reading the entire work.

Contents:

The Decameron proem / Robert Hollander

The place of the title (Decameron, day one, introduction) / Thomas C. Stillinger

The tale of Ser Ciappelletto (I.1) / Franco Fido

The tale of Abraham the Jew (I.2) / Marga Cottino-Jones

The tale of the three rings (I.3) / Pamela D. Stewart

The tale of the monk and his abbot (I.4) / Ronald Martinez

The tale of the marchioness of Monferrato (I.5) / Dante Della Terza

The tale of the inquisitor (I.6) / Janet Levarie Smarr

The tale of Bergamino (I.7) / Michelangelo Picone

The tale of Guigliemo Borsiere (I.8) / Victoria Kirkham

The tale of the king of Cyprus and the lady of Gascony (I.9) / Pier Massimo Forni

The tale of Maestro Alberto (I.10) / Millicent Marcus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-8674-4

1-4426-8109-8

OCLC:

958579665