Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature
Title | Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Olivia Holmes |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2023-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009224336 |
Olivia Holmes explores the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents against the backdrop of medieval religion and didacticism.
Famous Women
Title | Famous Women PDF eBook |
Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780674011304 |
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
Il Filocolo
Title | Il Filocolo PDF eBook |
Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | Scholarly Title |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
De Mulieribus Claris
Title | De Mulieribus Claris PDF eBook |
Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780674003477 |
After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. The 106 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries. In the hands of a master storyteller, these brief biographies afford a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Famous Women, which Boccaccio continued to revise and expand until the end of his life, became one of the most popular works in the last age of the manuscript book, and had a signal influence on many literary works, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Castiglione's Courtier. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.
Dante's Two Beloveds
Title | Dante's Two Beloveds PDF eBook |
Author | Olivia Holmes |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0300125429 |
Re-examining key passages in Dante’s oeuvre in the light of the crucial issue of moral choice, this book provides a new thematic framework for interpreting the Divine Comedy. Olivia Holmes shows how Dante articulated the relationship between the human and the divine as an erotic choice between two attractive women—Beatrice and the “other woman.” Investigating the traditions and archetypes that contributed to the formation of Dante’s two beloveds, Holmes shows how Dante brilliantly overlaid and combined these paradigms in his poem. In doing so he re-imagined the two women as not merely oppositional condensations of apparently conflicting cultural traditions but also complementary versions of the same. This visionary insight sheds new light on Dante’s corpus and on the essential paradox at the poem’s heart: the unabashed eroticism of Dante’s turn away from the earthly in favor of the divine.
Boccaccio's exemplary female(s)
Title | Boccaccio's exemplary female(s) PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Therese Huschle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love
Title | Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love PDF eBook |
Author | N. S. Thompson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature |
ISBN | 9780198186465 |
Although the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular medieval collections of framed narratives to examine the texts as a whole. The present study goes well beyond shared general similarities and the inconclusive search for source or analogue material in order to look at the internal dynamics of each text and the surprising similarities that emerge there in terms of theories of literature, authority and authorship and the particular reader response envisaged by their authors.