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Petrarch and Boccaccio Mimesis
Petrarch and Boccaccio Mimesis Romanische Literaturen der Welt Herausgegeben von Ottmar Ette Band 61 Petrarch and Boccaccio The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World Edited by Igor Candido An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access. More information about the initiative and links to the Open Access version can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. The Open Access book is available at www.degruyter.com. ISBN 978-3-11-042514-7 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-041930-6 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-041958-0 ISSN 0178-7489 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 license. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2018 Igor Candido, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Typesetting: Konvertus, Haarlem Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Dedicated to Ronald Witt (1932–2017) Contents Acknowledgments IX Igor Candido Introduction 1 H. Wayne Storey The -
Boccaccio on Readers and Reading
Heliotropia 1.1 (2003) http://www.heliotropia.org Boccaccio on Readers and Reading occaccio’s role as a serious theorist of reading has not been a partic- ularly central concern of critics. This is surprising, given the highly B sophisticated commentary on reception provided by the two autho- rial self-defenses in the Decameron along with the evidence furnished by the monumental if unfinished project of his Dante commentary, the Espo- sizioni. And yet there are some very interesting statements tucked into his work, from his earliest days as a writer right to his final output, about how to read, how not to read, and what can be done to help readers. That Boccaccio was aware of the way genre affected the way people read texts is evident from an apparently casual remark in the Decameron. Having declared that his audience is to be women in love, he then announ- ces the contents of his book: intendo di raccontare cento novelle, o favole o parabole o istorie che dire le vogliamo. (Decameron, Proemio 13) The inference is that these are precisely the kinds of discourse appropriate for Boccaccio’s intended readership, lovelorn ladies. Attempts to interpret this coy list as a typology of the kinds of narration in the Decameron have been rather half-hearted, especially in commented editions. Luigi Russo (1938), for instance, makes no mention of the issue at all, and the same goes for Bruno Maier (1967) and Attilio Momigliano (1968). Maria Segre Consigli (1966), on the other hand, limits herself to suggesting that the three last terms are merely synonyms used by the author to provide a working definition of the then-unfamiliar term ‘novella’. -
Locating Boccaccio in 2013
Locating Boccaccio in 2013 Locating Boccaccio in 2013 11 July to 20 December 2013 Mon 12.00 – 5.00 Tue – Sat 10.00 – 5.00 Sun 12.00 – 5.00 The John Rylands Library The University of Manchester 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH Designed by Epigram 0161 237 9660 1 2 Contents Locating Boccaccio in 2013 2 The Life of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) 3 Tales through Time 4 Boccaccio and Women 6 Boccaccio as Mediator 8 Transmissions and Transformations 10 Innovations in Print 12 Censorship and Erotica 14 Aesthetics of the Historic Book 16 Boccaccio in Manchester 18 Boccaccio and the Artists’ Book 20 Further Reading and Resources 28 Acknowledgements 29 1 Locating Boccaccio Te Life of Giovanni in 2013 Boccaccio (1313-1375) 2013 is the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio’s twenty-first century? His status as one of the Giovanni Boccaccio was born in 1313, either Author portrait, birth, and this occasion offers us the tre corone (three crowns) of Italian medieval in Florence or nearby Certaldo, the son of Decameron (Venice: 1546), opportunity not only to commemorate this literature, alongside Dante and Petrarch is a merchant who worked for the famous fol. *3v great author and his works, but also to reflect unchallenged, yet he is often perceived as Bardi company. In 1327 the young Boccaccio upon his legacy and meanings today. The the lesser figure of the three. Rather than moved to Naples to join his father who exhibition forms part of a series of events simply defining Boccaccio in automatic was posted there. As a trainee merchant around the world celebrating Boccaccio in relation to the other great men in his life, Boccaccio learnt the basic skills of arithmetic 2013 and is accompanied by an international then, we seek to re-present him as a central and accounting before commencing training conference held at the historic Manchester figure in the classical revival, and innovator as a canon lawyer. -
Filostrato: an Unintentional Comedy?
Heliotropia 15 (2018) http://www.heliotropia.org Filostrato: an Unintentional Comedy? he storyline of Filostrato is easy to sum up: Troiolo, who is initially presented as a Hippolytus-type character, falls in love with Criseida. T Thanks to the mediation of Pandaro, mezzano d’amore, Troiolo and Criseida can very soon meet and enjoy each other’s love. Criseida is then unfortunately sent to the Greek camp, following an exchange of prisoners between the fighting opponents. Here she once again very quickly falls in love, this time with the Achaean warrior Diomedes. After days of emotional turmoil, Troiolo accidentally finds out about the affair: Diomedes is wearing a piece of jewellery that he had previously given to his lover as a gift.1 The young man finally dies on the battlefield in a rather abrupt fashion: “avendone già morti più di mille / miseramente un dì l’uccise Achille” [And one day, after a long stalemate, when he already killed more than a thou- sand, Achilles slew him miserably] (8.27.7–8). This very minimal plot is told in about 700 ottave (roughly the equivalent of a cantica in Dante’s Comme- dia), in which dialogues, monologues, and laments play a major role. In fact, they tend to comment on the plot, rather than feed it. I would insert the use of love letters within Filostrato under this pragmatic rationale: the necessity to diversify and liven up a plot which we can safely call flimsy. We could read the insertion of Cino da Pistoia’s “La dolce vista e ’l bel sguardo soave” (5.62–66) under the same lens: a sort of diegetic sublet that incorporates the words of someone else, in this case in the form of a poetic homage.2 Italian critics have insisted on the elegiac nature of Filostrato, while at the same time hinting at its ambiguous character, mainly in terms of not 1 “Un fermaglio / d’oro, lì posto per fibbiaglio” [a brooch of gold, set there perchance as clasp] (8.9). -
Myth in CS Lewis's Perelandra
Walls 1 A Hierarchy of Love: Myth in C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra A Thesis Submitted to The Faculty of the School of Communication In Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts in English by Joseph Robert Walls May 2012 Walls 2 Liberty University School of Communication Master of Arts in English _______________________________________________________________________ Thesis Chair Date Dr. Branson Woodard, D.A. _______________________________________________________________________ First Reader Date Dr. Carl Curtis, Ph.D. _______________________________________________________________________ Second Reader Date Dr. Mary Elizabeth Davis, Ph.D. Walls 3 For Alyson Your continual encouragement, support, and empathy are invaluable to me. Walls 4 Contents Introduction......................................................................................................................................5 Chapter 1: Understanding Symbol, Myth, and Allegory in Perelandra........................................11 Chapter 2: Myth and Sacramentalism Through Character ............................................................32 Chapter 3: On Depictions of Evil...................................................................................................59 Chapter 4: Mythical Interaction with Landscape...........................................................................74 A Conclusion Transposed..............................................................................................................91 Works Cited ...................................................................................................................................94 -
A CS Lewis Related Cumulative Index of <I>Mythlore</I>
Volume 22 Number 2 Article 10 1998 A C.S. Lewis Related Cumulative Index of Mythlore, Issues 1-84 Glen GoodKnight Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation GoodKnight, Glen (1998) "A C.S. Lewis Related Cumulative Index of Mythlore, Issues 1-84," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 22 : No. 2 , Article 10. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol22/iss2/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Mythopoeic Society at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To join the Mythopoeic Society go to: http://www.mythsoc.org/join.htm Mythcon 51: A VIRTUAL “HALFLING” MYTHCON July 31 - August 1, 2021 (Saturday and Sunday) http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm Mythcon 52: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien Albuquerque, New Mexico; July 29 - August 1, 2022 http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm Abstract Author and subject index to articles, reviews, and letters in Mythlore 1–84. Additional Keywords Lewis, C.S.—Bibliography; Mythlore—Indexes This article is available in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol22/iss2/10 MYTHLORE I s s u e 8 4 Sum m er 1998 P a g e 5 9 A C.S. -
Studies in Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris. New York: Peter Lang, 2003
Heliotropia - An online journal of research to Boccaccio scholars Volume 2 Volume 2 (2004) Issue 2 Article 5 December 2004 Stephen D. Kolsky. The Genealogy of Women: Studies in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. x + 245 pp. €66.00/￡43.00/$65.99. Martin Marafioti Pace University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/heliotropia Recommended Citation Marafioti, Martin (2004) "Stephen D. Kolsky. The Genealogy of Women: Studies in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. x + 245 pp. €66.00/￡43.00/$65.99.," Heliotropia - An online journal of research to Boccaccio scholars: Vol. 2 : Iss. 2 , Article 5. Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/heliotropia/vol2/iss2/5 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Heliotropia - An online journal of research to Boccaccio scholars by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Marafioti: Stephen D. Kolsky. <em>The Genealogy of Women: Studies in Boccacc Heliotropia 2.2 (2004) http://www.heliotropia.org Stephen D. Kolsky. The Genealogy of Women: Studies in Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. x + 254 pp. €66.00/£43.00/$65.95 Over the centuries, Boccaccio scholarship has concentrated on the Decameron, the work that the author perhaps considered one of his least worthy literary accomplishments. There are comparatively few monographs dedicated to his minor works in the vernacular, and, above all, Boccaccio’s Latin corpus has been greatly overlooked. -
Book Viii of De Pauperie Salvatoris by Richard Fitzralph, and William Woodford's Defensorium
CHRIST'S POVERTY IN ANTIMENDICANT DEBATE: BOOK VIII OF DE PAUPERIE SALVATORIS BY RICHARD FITZRALPH, AND WILLIAM WOODFORD'S DEFENSORIUM Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of History Bridget Riley Submitted July 2019 ABSTRACT This thesis comprises a study of two fourteenth-century texts, written as part of the mendicant controversy, book VIII of De pauperie Salvatoris by Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh, (c. 1300-1360) and its response, Defensorium Fratrum Mendicantium contra Ricardum Armachanum in Octavo Libello de Pauperie Christi, by the English Franciscan friar, William Woodford (c. 1330-c. 1397). It introduces each theologian, speculating why such significant fourteenth-century thinkers are not more widely known to scholars of this period. It briefly explores how contemporary understandings of the practice of mendicancy have become obscured within a historiography which seems reluctant to turn to the works of the critics of the mendicant friars for information. Based on a close-reading of each text, the thesis examines FitzRalph's declaration that Christ did not beg, and Woodford's assertion that he did, noting how each theologian uses scripture, the writings of the Church fathers, those of mendicant theologians, and mobilizes arguments from the classical philosopher, Aristotle, to construct their opposing viewpoints. Focussing especially on discussions about poverty, and about the life and activities of Christ, it suggests that information valuable to social historians is located in these texts, where each theologian constructs their own worldview, and rationalizes their position. Of particular interest is FitzRalph's radical fashioning of Christ as a labouring carpenter, and Woodford's construction of a socio-economic and an anti-semitic argument to disprove it. -
Visions/Versions of the Medieval in C.S. Lewis's the Chronicles of Narnia
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Boise State University - ScholarWorks VISIONS/VERSIONS OF THE MEDIEVAL IN C.S. LEWIS’S THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA by Heather Herrick Jennings A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, Literature Boise State University Summer 2009 © 2009 Heather Herrick Jennings ALL RIGHTS RESERVED v TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................... vii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................ 1 Lewis and the Middle Ages ............................................................................ 6 The Discarded Image ...................................................................................... 8 A Medieval Atmosphere ................................................................................. 10 CHAPTER TWO: THE HEAVENS OF NARNIA .................................................... 13 The Stars above Narnia ................................................................................... 15 The Narnian Planets ........................................................................................ 18 The Influence of the Planets ........................................................................... 19 The Moon and Fortune in Narnia ................................................................... 22 An Inside-Out Universe ................................................................................. -
North American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1991 (Through November, 1991) Compiled by Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Heliotropia 1.1 (2003) http://www.heliotropia.org North American Boccaccio Bibliography for 1991 (through November, 1991) Compiled by Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin-Madison Books: Editions and Translations Boccaccio, Giovanni, Diana’s Hunt: Caccia di Diana. Boccaccio’s First Fiction, edited and translated by Anthony K. Cassell and Victoria Kirk- ham. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Pp. xvi + 255. ———, Ninfale fiesolano, a cura di Pier Massimo Forni. GUM, n.s., 196. Milano: Mursia, 1991. Pp. 208. Books: Critical Studies Doob, Penelope Reed, The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiq- uity through the Middle Ages. Ithaca, New York, and London: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xviii + 355. [Contains sections on Boccac- cio’s Corbaccio and De Genealogia Deorum Gentilium.] Fleming, John V., Classical Imitation and Interpretation in Chaucer’s “Troilus”. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Pp. xviii + 276. Gilbert, Creighton E., Poets Seeing Artists’ Work: Instances in the Italian Renaissance. Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1991. Pp. 293. [Contains a long section on “Boccaccio’s Admirations,” including “Boccaccio’s De- votion to Artists and Art”; “The Fresco by Giotto in Milan”; “Boccaccio Looking at Actual Frescoes”; and “On Castagno’s Nine Famous Men and Women.”] Gittes, Katharine S., Framing the “Canterbury Tales”: Chaucer and the Medieval Frame Narrative Tradition. Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. 176. Hanly, Michael G., Boccaccio, Beauvau, Chaucer: “Troilus and Cri- seyde” (Four Perspectives on Influence). Norman: Pilgrim Books, 1990. McGregor, James H., The Image of Antiquity in Boccaccio’s “Filostrato,” “Filocolo,” and “Teseida.” “Studies in Italian Culture: Lit- erature and History,” I. -
1 AUTHORSHIP and the DISCOVERY of CHARACTER in MEDIEVAL ROMANCE Caitlin G. Watt a Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty at the U
AUTHORSHIP AND THE DISCOVERY OF CHARACTER IN MEDIEVAL ROMANCE Caitlin G. Watt A dissertation submitted to the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Chapel Hill 2018 Approved by: Robert Babcock Reid Barbour Shayne Legassie Carolina Digital Repository Tedprovided Leinbaugh by View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk CORE brought to you by Jessica Wolfe 1 ©2018 Caitlin G. Watt ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT Caitlin G. Watt: Authorship and the Discovery of Character in Medieval Romance (Under the direction of Shayne Legassie) This dissertation argues that by pioneering new ways of constructing and reading literary character, writers of twelfth- to fourteenth-century romance also claimed a new authority for vernacular fiction. Through readings of several key medieval texts, the dissertation not only illuminates character as an underestimated critical tool used by medieval writers in but also intervenes in the ongoing scholarly discussion of medieval authorship. It begins with Le Roman d’Enéas, a twelfth-century adaptation of Virgil’s Aeneid that, by revising tensions in the characters of the Latin royal court, familiarizes the epic for a courtly audience and posits its writer as an authoritative interpreter of the Aeneid. Next, medieval concepts of memory and contemporary serial narrative theory are used to argue that Chrétien de Troyes, inventor of French Arthurian romance, creates a model of character that requires audiences to read his romances as a corpus and thus establishes himself as the author of a new literary tradition. -
The Amazon Myth in Western Literature. Bruce Robert Magee Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 1996 The Amazon Myth in Western Literature. Bruce Robert Magee Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Magee, Bruce Robert, "The Amazon Myth in Western Literature." (1996). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 6262. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/6262 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the tmct directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter 6ce, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely afreet reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand comer and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps.