The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective

Herausgeber: Sherberg, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781487507473
• ISBN-10: 148750747X
• Artikelnr.: 59084121

Autorenporträt

Michael Sherberg is a former president of the American Boccaccio Association, and erstwhile chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Note on Decameron Citations
Introduction
Michael Sherberg
Love, Latinity, and Aging in the Introduction to Day Four
Timothy Kircher
"A questa tanto picciola vigilia de’ vostri sensi": Senile Recidivism,
Incest, and Egotism in Decameron IV.1
Tobias Foster Gittes
Incarnation in Venice (IV.2)
Alison Cornish
The Tale of the Three Ill-Starred Sisters (IV.3)
Michael Papio
Love, Heroism, and Masculinity in the Tale of Gerbino (IV.4)
Gur Zak
The Tale of Lisabetta da Messina (IV.5)
Kristina M. Olson
The Dream of the Shadow (IV.6)
F. Regina Psaki
Spinning Yarns in Decameron IV.7
Suzanne Magnanini
Girolamo's Wicked Mother and the Setback of Reason in Taming Lovesickness
(IV.8)
Annelise Brody
How the vida of Guilhem de Cabestanh "quasi tutta si disfece" (IV.9)
Julie Singer
Happy Endings (IV.10)
Fabian Alfie
Bibliography
Contributors
Index