Table of Contents

Table of Contents: Preface Introduction 1Lies My Father Told Me: Boccaccio's Novelletta of Filippo Balducci and his Son Ernesto Virgulti 2The Crisis of Word and Deed in Decameron V, 10 Susan Gaylard 3Master and Servant Roles in the DecameronCormac Ó Cuilleanáin 4Telling Lies, Telling Lives: Giovanni Sercambi between Cronaca and NovellaMyriam Swennen Ruthenberg 5Sercambi's Novelliere and Croniche as Evidence for Musical Entertainment in the Fourteenth CenturyCathy Ann Elias 6The Lover Praised by the Husband: A Courtly Tale between Exemplum and NovellaMaria Bendinelli Predelli 7Masuccio Salernitano's Gusto dell'orridoMichael Papio 8Imitation and Subversion of Models in Agnolo Firenzuola's I RagionamentiManuela Scarci 9Alterity and Sexual Transgression in the Sixteenth-Century Tuscan NovellaDomenico Zanrè 10Animal Anxieties: Straparola's Il re porcoSuzanne Magnanini 11The Motif of the Woman in Male Disguise from Boccaccio to BigolinaChristopher Nissen List of Contributors Index