Boccaccio's Decameron
Subtitle: rewriting the Christian Middle Ages
By: edited by Dino S. Cervigni
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
Subjects: Medieval Literature; History and criticism; Religion and literature
Other titles: Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages; Annali d'italianistica.
Notes: Cover title.

Issued as volume 31 of Annali d'Italianistica.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Decameron's all-encompassing discourse : topoi of the poet, women, and critics / Dino S. Cervigni; title: The Brigata's overarching tale : rewriting the Christian Middle Ages / Dino S. Cervigni; title: Movement, moment, and mission in the opening day of the Decameron / Timothy Kircher; title: The Decameron's ballads & Emilia's happy song / Dino S. Cervigni; title: Decameron 2 : Filomena's rule between fortune and human agency / Francesco Ciabattoni; title: Eroticizing theology in Day Three and the poetics of the Decameron / Martin Eisner; title: The one and the many : the tale of the Brigata and Decameron Day Four / F. Regina Psaki; title: Between two sad love songs : the trials and tribulations of marriage in Decameron 5 / Brandon Essary; title: Day Six of the Decameron : language's polysemy or the importance of being understood / Franziska Meier; title: Decameron 7 : under the sign of Venus / Elsa Filosa; title: Trial by beffa : retributive justice and in-group formation in Day Eight / Olivia Holmes; title: "Dal giogo alleviati" : free servitude and fixed stars in Decameron 9 / Tobias Gittes; title: Making amends and behaving magnificently : Decameron's 10 secular redemption / Dino S. Cervigni; title: Fiammetta's song of jealousy : are the young people still at play? / Dino S. Cervigni; title: Neither hellish nor divine : the Decameron's precarious centers and the author's conclusion / Dino S. Cervigni; title: The novella of Gismonda and Guiscardo in verse : a fifteenth-century incunabulum of Decameron 4.1 / Anne Tordi; title: In memoriam of Gustavo Costa (1930-2012) / Paolo Cherchi.