The Decameron first day in perspective [electronic resource] : volume one of the Lecturae Boccaccii / edited by Elissa B. Weaver.
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 promi...
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Table of 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.