The Decameron First Day in Perspective / Edition 2

The Decameron First Day in Perspective / Edition 2

ISBN-10:
080208589X
ISBN-13:
9780802085894
Pub. Date:
03/28/2004
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
ISBN-10:
080208589X
ISBN-13:
9780802085894
Pub. Date:
03/28/2004
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Decameron First Day in Perspective / Edition 2

The Decameron First Day in Perspective / Edition 2

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Overview

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 prominent American Boccaccio scholars to provide critical readings of the Decameron Proem, Introduction, and the ten stories that constitute the first of the ten 'days' of storytelling.

The first of the twelve essays opens the volume with a consideration of the Proem, demonstrating the importance of Boccaccio's literary subtexts (Ovidian and Dantean) for understanding his poetics. The second essay, on the Introduction, discusses the title of the work and the framing tale. The remaining ten contributions treat in detail each story, examining the literary, ethical, and social concerns embodied in the short narratives and in the context provided by the comments and discussions of the story-tellers, and exploring the intertextual relations within the Decameron and with sources and analogues. This inaugural book in a new series of critical essays on the Decameron will provide an important guide to reading the complex series of narratives that constitute the opening of the Decameron and will serve as a guide to reading the entire work.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802085894
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication date: 03/28/2004
Series: Toronto Italian Studies Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.03(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Elissa B. Weaver is a professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Prefacevii
Introduction3
The Decameron Proem12
The Place of the Title (Decameron, Day One, Introduction)29
The Stories
I.1The Tale of Ser Ciappelletto59
I.2The Tale of Abraham the Jew77
I.3The Tale of the Three Rings89
I.4The Tale of the Monk and His Abbot113
I.5The Tale of the Marchioness of Monferrato135
I.6The Tale of the Inquisitor148
I.7The Tale of Bergamino160
I.8The Tale of Guiglielmo Borsiere179
I.9The Tale of the King of Cyprus and the Lady of Gascony207
I.10The Tale of Maestro Alberto222
Bibliography241
Contributors257
Index261
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