The English Boccaccio : a history in books /
Armstrong, Guyda.
Toronto ; London : University of Toronto Press,
c2013.
Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Armstrong is thereby able to reveal how the medieval text in translation is remade and re-authorized for every new generation of readers."--pub. desc.
Includes bibliographical references (p.[404]-441) and indexes.
"Here begynneth the book callyd J. Bochas": The De casibus virorum illustrium between Italy and England -- The De mulieribus claris in English translation, 1440-1550 -- Boccaccio in print in the sixteenth century -- "One Hundred Ingenious Novels": refashioning the Decameron, 1620-1930 -- The minor works in the nineteenth century: Dante and Chaucer -- The early twentieth-century recovery of the minor works.
Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Armstrong is thereby able to reveal how the medieval text in translation is remade and re-authorized for every new generation of readers."--pub. desc.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
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