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Reconsidering Boccaccio
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Olivia Holmes
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Reconsidering Boccaccio explores the exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range of the Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio, his dialogue with voice
Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Olivia Holmes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Olivia Holmes explores the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents against the backdrop of medieval religion and didacticism.
Law and Mimesis in Boccaccio's Decameron
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Justin Steinberg
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In Boccaccio's time, the Italian city-state began to take on a much more proactive role in prosecuting crime – one which superseded a largely communitarian, p
Boccaccio the Philosopher
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Filippo Andrei
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-07 - Publisher: Springer

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This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian lite
Boccaccio’s Florence
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Elsa Filosa
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also