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1. Record Number: 23937
Author(s): Leushuis, Reinier
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Title : Renaissance Women Reviewed [The essay includes comments on "The Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy" by Stephen Kolsky. Brepols, 2005. Kolsky looked at texts written in Italy between 1480 and 1530 in both Latin and the vernacular. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Italica , 84., 4 ( 2007): Pages 852 - 855.
Year of Publication: 2007.

2. Record Number: 14140
Author(s): Baskins, Cristelle L.
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Title : Scenes from a Marriage : Hospitality and Commerce in Boccaccio's "Tale of Saladin and Torello" [The author reads the panel paintings of a story from Boccaccio in terms of both gender and economics. Adalieta, the wife of Torello, gives him gifts (rather than vice versa as was customary). The Saracen figures in the story need to be domesticated, with

Source: The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy. Edited by Sherry Roush and Cristelle L. Baskins . Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. Italica , 84., 4 ( 2007): Pages 81 - 99.
Year of Publication: 2005.

3. Record Number: 14748
Author(s): Tolhurst, Fiona.
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Title : The Great Divide?: History and Literary History as Partners in Medieval Mythology [The author takes four literary works by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Matthew Paris, Boccaccio, and Christine de Pizan as case studies. She argues that they all demonstrate a sophisticated mix of historical, legendary, and Biblical figures. Furthermore in their representations of women they each perform significant cultural work. Geoffrey of Monmouth sought to legitimize Empress Matilda's rule of England. Matthew Paris reinforced desirable female behavior by critcizing dangerous female traits. Boccaccio offered models for women to emulate. Christine de Pizan took this further by acknowledging misogyny in her sources and championing woman's moral nature. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques , 30., 1 (Spring 2004): Pages 7 - 27.
Year of Publication: 2004.

4. Record Number: 12607
Author(s): Krueger, Roberta L.
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Title : Uncovering Griselda: Christine de Pizan, “un seule chemise,” and the Clerical Tradition: Boccaccio, Petrarch, Philippe de Mézières and the Ménagier de Paris [Christine’s sparse and forceful retelling of the story of patient Griselda in “La Cité des Dames” corrects the clerical tradition that informed previous versions of the story. While male writers like Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer frame the Griselda story with interpretive commentary, Christine strips the story of embellishment in order to focus attention on Griselda’s eloquence and her suffering at the will of her cruel husband. Just as Griselda is clothed and unclothed as she shifts in status within the story, so is the Griselda narrative itself rhetorically unclothed as Christine retells it. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings. Edited by E. Jane Burns . Palgrave, 2004. Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques , 30., 1 (Spring 2004): Pages 71 - 88.
Year of Publication: 2004.

5. Record Number: 8081
Author(s): Migiel, Marilyn.
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Title : Domestic Violence in the "Decameron" [The author examines Emilia's story about Melisso and Giosefo in the "Decameron." They both receive advice from Solomon who advocates wife beating. The story ends with the narrator Emilia offening justifications for violence against women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts. Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price . University Press of Florida, 2002. Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques , 30., 1 (Spring 2004): Pages 164 - 179.
Year of Publication: 2002.

6. Record Number: 6459
Author(s): Lokaj, Rodney J.
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Title : La Cleopatra Napoletana: Giovanna d'Angiò nelle "Familiares" di Petrarca [almost all contemporary writings speak badly of Giovanna I of Naples; Boccaccio is a partial exception, but Petrarca's letters contrast Giovanna's reign with that of her grandfather Robert, to her disadvantage; the poet also contrasts Giovanna's weak character with the strengths shown by Maria of Pozzuoli, both of them beset by hostile kin; Petrarca compared Maria to Camilla, Virgil's Italian Amazon, while in the "Familiares" he consistently compared Giovanna and her court to the scandalous Cleopatra and her courtiers].

Source: Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana , 177., ( 2000): Pages 481 - 521.
Year of Publication: 2000.

7. Record Number: 9321
Author(s): Riva, Massimo.
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Title : Hereos/Eleos. L'Ambivalente terapia del mal d'amore nel libro "Chiamato Decameron cognominato prencipe Galeotto" [Boccaccio's "Decameron" can be understood as a literary remedy for lovesickness. Medieval medicine located this illness in the brain, not the heart, expecting it to manifest itself more often in women whose nature was moist. Men, however, with their drier humors, suffered more once their passions were aroused. Boccaccio found love's remedy in stories relating its potentially harmful delights. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Italian Quarterly , 37., (Winter-Fall 2000): Pages 69 - 106.
Year of Publication: 2000.

8. Record Number: 4542
Author(s): Barolini, Teodolinda.
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Title : Dante and Francesca da Rimini: Realpolitik, Romance, Gender [The author explores the minimal historical evidence for Francesca da Polenta, wife of Gianciotto Malatesta and lover of his brother, Paolo; in contrast Dante memorializes Francesca with a striking, psychological portrait].

Source: Speculum , 75., 1 (January 2000): Pages 1 - 28.
Year of Publication: 2000.

9. Record Number: 20896
Author(s): Morosini, Roberta
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Title : Bone eloquence e mondo alla rovescia nel discorso "semblable a la reisun" nella novella di Madonna Filippa" ("Decameron" VI.7) [The tale of Madonna Filippa resembles Marie de France's fable about the peasant who demanded a higher price for his horse because the buyer had only seen the old half of the horse. The judge seeks to save Madonna Filippa's life when her husband brings a charge of adultery by employing a similar exercise in facile logic. He accepts Madonna Filippa's defense without objection, being moved by her beauty. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Italica , 77., 1 ( 2000): Pages 1 - 13.
Year of Publication: 2000.

10. Record Number: 4508
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Title : Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" [The author compares the three versions of Griselda's tale; he argues that the differences are not as great as critics have maintained with Chaucer deriving more from Boccaccio than was previously believed].

Source: Studies in Philology , 97., 3 (Summer 2000): Pages 255 - 275.
Year of Publication: 2000.

11. Record Number: 5452
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Title : Transformations of the "buona Gualdrada" Legend from Boccaccio to Vasari: A Study in the Politics of Florentine Narrative [the story was told that Gualdrada's father offered to order her to kiss the visiting Emperor Otho IV; she refused indignantly and reminded her father of his responsibilities to make a good marriage for her; for Boccaccio Gualdrada's act is a symbol of republican virtue, while for Vasari Gualdrada represents contemporary Florence and Cosimo de Medici, resisting the influence of Emperor Charles V].

Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Edited by Letizia Panizza . European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Studies in Philology , 97., 3 (Summer 2000): Pages 401 - 420.
Year of Publication: 2000.

12. Record Number: 5481
Author(s): Paolino, Laura.
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Title : Visible Narrare: L'Edizione in facsimile della "Griselda" di Petrarca [Petrarch was the first to translate a tale from the "Decameron," the Griselda story, into Latin; like much of Boccaccio's own work, this translation was, in turn, translated into French; Petrarch presents Griselda as the perfect wife; this work has a place in the development of the "pocket book" form in manuscript and in print].

Source: Medioevo e Rinascimento , ( 1999): Pages 301 - 308.
Year of Publication: 1999.

13. Record Number: 6679
Author(s): Nardi, Eva.
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Title : Alle origini della biografia femminile [Giovanni Boccaccio pioneered "lay" biography of women, with almost all of his models coming from ancient heroines; later biographers praised the virtues of Italian women of their own age].

Source: Quaderni Medievali , 48., (dicembre 1999): Pages 197 - 204.
Year of Publication: 1999.

14. Record Number: 10160
Author(s): Lacroix, Jean.
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Title : Les Nus du "Decameron" (pour une erotique Boccacienne)

Source: Études Médiévales , 1., ( 1999): Pages 129 - 148.
Year of Publication: 1999.

15. Record Number: 4210
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Title : The Wife of Bath's "Prologue," LL. 328-336, and Boccaccio's "Decameron"

Source: Neophilologus , 83., 2 (April 1999): Pages 313 - 316.
Year of Publication: 1999.

16. Record Number: 4278
Author(s): Hayward, Rebecca.
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Title : Between the Living and the Dead: Widows as Heroines of Medieval Romances

Source: Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages. Edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl . St. Martin's Press, 1999. Neophilologus , 83., 2 (April 1999): Pages 221 - 243.
Year of Publication: 1999.

17. Record Number: 3957
Author(s): Migiel, Marilyn.
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Title : Encrypted Messages: Men, Women, and Figurative Language in "Decameron" 5.4 [The author argues that the deeper message of the story concerns the consolidation of male power and the upholding of patriarchal values.]

Source: Philological Quarterly , 77., 1 (Winter 1998): Pages 1 - 13.
Year of Publication: 1998.

18. Record Number: 6431
Author(s): Picone, Michelangelo.
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Title : La vergine e l'eremita: Una lettura intertestuale della novella di Alibech ("Decameron" III. 10) [Boccaccio's tales burlesque hagiographic conventions, including the story of Mary of Egypt; the hermit's mortifications, in the tale of Alibech, lead, not to sanctity, but to pride and a fall; and the virgin Alibech finds sexual pleasure and worldly wisdom in the wilderness; the poet explores in this tale the relationship between the mystical and the erotic].

Source: Vox Romanica , 57., ( 1998): Pages 85 - 99.
Year of Publication: 1998.

19. Record Number: 3782
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Title : The "Povre Widwe" in the "Nun's Priest's Tale" and Boccaccio's "Decameron" [the poor widow's spare, modest, and healthy way of life is contrasted with the corrupt clergy].

Source: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 99., 3 ( 1998): Pages 269 - 273.
Year of Publication: 1998.

20. Record Number: 6366
Author(s): Cavallero, Daniela.
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Title : Alatiel e Zinevra: Il "peso" del silenzio, la leggerezza dei "vestiti" [Alatiel never speaks during her adventures, and her lovers do not speak a language known to her; this can be interpreted as the use of the only language, that of the body, through sex, available to a woman in a world dominated by men; Zinevra assumes male garb, but only for a time, returning to the social restrictions of female dress once she reaches safety].

Source: Romance Languages Annual , 9., ( 1998): Pages 165 - 170.
Year of Publication: 1998.

21. Record Number: 1378
Author(s): Zago, Esther.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women, Medicine, and the Law in Boccaccio's "Decameron" [differences in the therapy available to women and men who are victims of lovesickness].

Source: Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill. Edited by Lilian R. Furst . University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Vox Romanica , 57., ( 1998): Pages 64 - 78.
Year of Publication: 1997.

22. Record Number: 7939
Author(s): Baldassarri, Stefano Ugo.
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Title : Adfluit incautis insidiosus amor: la precettistica Ovidiana nel "Filostrato" di Boccaccio [Boccaccio's "Filostrato" makes extensive use of Ovid's works, particularly in its account of Troilus and Criseyde. Ovid's "Heroides" was a particular source for the account of Helena and Paris. "Filostrato" was a youthful work, more dependent on classical models than were Boccaccio's mature writings.]

Source: Rivista di Studi Italiani , 14., 2 (Dicembre 1996): Pages 20 - 42.
Year of Publication: 1996.

23. Record Number: 3295
Author(s): Ruhe, Ernstpeter.
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Title : Intertextueller Dialog im Decamerone

Source: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen , 233., ( 1996): Pages 52 - 64.
Year of Publication: 1996.

24. Record Number: 1632
Author(s): Godorecci, Barbara J.
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Title : Re-Writing Griselda: Trials of the Grey Battle Maiden [the handling of the testing theme in Boccaccio, Petrarch's Latin translation, and Chaucer's English version].

Source: Romance Languages Annual , 8., ( 1996): Pages 192 - 196.
Year of Publication: 1996.

25. Record Number: 1704
Author(s): Slerca, Anna.
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Title : Dante, Boccace, et le "Livre de la Cité des Dames" de Christine de Pizan

Source: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan. Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont . Paradigme, 1995. Comparative Literature Studies , 32., 2 ( 1995): Pages 221 - 230.
Year of Publication: 1995.

26. Record Number: 5584
Author(s): Trotta, Stefania.
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Title : L "Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta" di Giovanni Boccaccio e un volgarizzamento delle "Epistulae heroidum" di Ovidio attribuito a Filippo Ceffi [Boccaccio knew the classics in both Latin and Italian versions; among his sources for the "Elegia" was the translation attributed to Filippo Ceffi, the most widely read Italian version of Ovid's "Epistulae;" Boccaccio's vocabulary and syntax both show similarities to Ceffi's].

Source: Italia Medioevale e Umanistica , 38., ( 1995): Pages 217 - 261.
Year of Publication: 1995.

27. Record Number: 5600
Author(s): Bisanti, Armando.
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Title : Lettura della novella di madonna Isabella [Madonna Isabella is able to make an alliance with her lover, Leonetto, and Messer Lambertuccio, his master and a potential lover for Isabella, against her threatening husband].

Source: Quaderni Medievali , 39., (giugno 1995): Pages 47 - 61.
Year of Publication: 1995.

28. Record Number: 6015
Author(s): Rossi, Luciano.
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Title : La donna nella novelistica del Quattrocento: Sercambi e le "Cent nouvelles nouvelles" [one of Boccaccio's imitators was Giovanni Sercambi; many stereotypes about women, most derived from the novelistic tradition, appear in his tales; by the fifteenth century, the novel had become, for reasons of its erotic content, limited to an all-male audience; Sercambi's tales were circulated in such circles, including that of Philip the Good of Burgundy, both in the original Italian and in translation].

Source: Ilaria del Carretto e il suo monumento: la donna nell'arte, la cultura, e la società del '400. Atti del convegno Internazionale di Studi, 15-16-17 Settembre, 1994, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca. Edited by Stéphane Toussaint. Translated by Clotilde Soave Bowe. . Edizioni S. Marco Litotipo, 1995. Quaderni Medievali , 39., (giugno 1995): Pages 237 - 249.
Year of Publication: 1995.

29. Record Number: 463
Author(s): Moe, Nelson.
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Title : Not a Love Story: Sexual Aggression, Law, and Order in "Decameron X 4" [Carisendi returns Catalina, believed dead, to her husband].

Source: Romanic Review , 86., 4 (Nov. 1995): Pages 623 - 638.
Year of Publication: 1995.

30. Record Number: 1191
Author(s): Milliken, Roberta.
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Title : Neither "Clere Laude" Nor "Sklaundre"; Chaucer's Translation of Criseyde [Chaucer amplified character traits from Boccaccio, emphasizing Criseyde as lonely, fearful, and controllable; all of this contributes to a realistic portrayal of an individual woman].

Source: Women's Studies , 24., 3 ( 1995): Pages 191 - 204. Special Issue: Issues in Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship
Year of Publication: 1995.

31. Record Number: 1712
Author(s): Zimmermann, Margarete.
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Title : Les "Cent Balades d'Amant et de Dame" une réécriture de "l'Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta" de Boccace?

Source: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan. Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont . Paradigme, 1995. Women's Studies , 24., 3 ( 1995): Pages 337 - 346.
Year of Publication: 1995.

32. Record Number: 234
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Title : Converting Alibech: "Nunc Spiritu Copuleris"

Source: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 25., 2 (Spring 1995): Pages 207 - 227.
Year of Publication: 1995.

33. Record Number: 1701
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Title : Christine de Pizan's Feminist Strategies : The Defense of the African and Asian Ladies in the "Book of the City of the Ladies"

Source: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan. Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont . Paradigme, 1995. Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 25., 2 (Spring 1995): Pages 177 - 193.
Year of Publication: 1995.

34. Record Number: 1703
Author(s): Mühlethaler, Jean- Claude.
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Title : Problèmes de récriture : amour et mort de la princesse de Salerne dans le "Decameron" (IV, 1) et dans la "Cité des Dames" (II, 59)

35. Record Number: 2522
Author(s): Freccero, Carla.
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Title : From Amazon to Court Lady: Generic Hybridization in Boccaccio's "Teseida" [analyzes feminine resistance and domestication as represented by Ipolita, Emilia, and the goddess Diana; also argues that Boccaccio combines the genres of heroic epic and courtly romance].

Source: Comparative Literature Studies , 32., 2 ( 1995): Pages 226 - 243.
Year of Publication: 1995.

36. Record Number: 1720
Author(s): Brown-Grant, Rosalind.
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Title : Des hommes et des femmes illustres : modalités narratives et transformations génériques chez Pétrarque, Boccace, et Christine de Pizan

37. Record Number: 2523
Author(s): Brownlee, Kevin.
Contributor(s):
Title : Christine de Pizan's Canonical Authors: The Special Case of Boccaccio [analyzes Christine's rewriting in the "Cite des Dames" of three of Boccaccio's stories from the "Decameron" (the story of Bernabò da Genova, Ambruogiuolo, and Zinevra ; the story of Elisabetta, Lorenzo, and the "testo di bassilico"); Christine rereads Boccaccio's female exemplars in part to establish a new female authorial persona].

Source: Comparative Literature Studies , 32., 2 ( 1995): Pages 244 - 261.
Year of Publication: 1995.

38. Record Number: 5335
Author(s): O'Brien, Dennis J.
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Title : Warrior Queen: The Character of Zenobia According to Giovanni Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, and Sir Thomas Elyot [The author argues that Boccaccio describes Zenobia in misogynistic terms, while Christine de Pizan emphasizes her moral intergrity and natural skills at politics and governing].

Source: Medieval Perspectives , 8., ( 1993): Pages 53 - 68.
Year of Publication: 1993.

39. Record Number: 6430
Author(s): Paden, Michael.
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Title : Elissa: La Ghibellina del "Decameron" [the "Decameron" reflects the political divisions of Florence and Italy as a whole; one character, Elissa, represents the Ghibelline (Pro-Imperial) viewpoint; Elissa's stories with political themes earn a satirical response from Dioneo; eventually Elissa learns to compromise with her companihttps://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/ArticleOfTheMonth.aspxons toward the rebuilding of society].

Source: Rivista di Studi Italiani , 11., 2 (Dicembre 1993): Pages 1 - 12.
Year of Publication: 1993.

40. Record Number: 9483
Author(s): Haahr, Joan G.
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Title : Criseyde's Inner Debate: The Dialectic of Enamorment in the "Filostrato" and the "Troilus" [The author examines Criseyde’s rhetorical “inner” disputation about whether or not she should fall in love with Troilus, and suggests Chaucer uses this narrative convention to add to her character. Title note supplied byFeminae.].

Source: Studies in Philology , 89., 3 (Summer 1992): Pages 257 - 271.
Year of Publication: 1992.

41. Record Number: 10370
Author(s): Stecopoulos, Eleni and Karl D. Uitti
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Title : Christine de Pizan’s “Le Livre de la Cite des Dames”: The Reconstruction of Myth [The author examines Christine’s response to a misogynist literary tradition through her treatment of myth and history. Christine derives mythological material from Boccaccio and largely recasts female mythological figures (like goddesses) as historical figures, in contrast to the more common trend of mythologizing history (treating historical figures as mythological). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan. Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno . University of Georgia Press, 1992. Rivista di Studi Italiani , 11., 2 (Dicembre 1993): Pages 48 - 62.
Year of Publication: 1992.

42. Record Number: 9126
Author(s): Meale, Carol M.
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Title : Legends of Good Women in the European Middle Ages [The author addresses the texts about exemplary women written by Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, and Chaucer. She takes the character of Medea as an example of their differing approaches, arguing that Chaucer is interested in women in terms of their literary development while Christine has a political dimension to her text. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen , 229., 144 ( 1992): Pages 55 - 70.
Year of Publication: 1992.

43. Record Number: 10004
Author(s): Minnis, Alastair J.
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Title : Authors in Love: The Exegesis of Late-Medieval Love-Poets [Vernacular poets who wrote about secular love sometimes appropriated techniques of literary criticism from a long scholastic tradition, which involved the interpretation of the Bible or Latin authors like Ovid. By appropriating exegetical (interpretive) practices like learned prologues and glosses within their own manuscripts, vernacular authors gained an authority that was previously reserved only for Latin writers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Uses of manuscripts in literary studies: essays in memory of Judson Boyce Allen. Edited by Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob, and Marjorie Curry Woods Studies in medieval culture . Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1992. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen , 229., 144 ( 1992): Pages 161 - 189.
Year of Publication: 1992.

44. Record Number: 10379
Author(s): Reno, Christine.
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Title : The Preface to the “Avision-Christine” in ex-Phillips 128 [Reno provides a transcription and translation of the Preface to the “Avision-Christine” as it appears in a previously unpublished manuscript. The preface explains to the reader how to read Christine de Pizan’s allegorical poem. Reno explains Christine’s ties to the allegorical exegetical tradition and to Boccaccio’s poetry, concluding that Christine blended Italian humanism and French courtly traditions in her writings. She concludes that Christine must have read some of Boccaccio’s work in the original Latin. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan. Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno . University of Georgia Press, 1992. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen , 229., 144 ( 1992): Pages 207 - 227.
Year of Publication: 1992.

45. Record Number: 7347
Author(s): McInerney, Maud Burnett.
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Title : Chaucerian Ritual and Patriarchal Romance [The author argues that in adapting Boccaccio's Teseida, Chaucer marginalizes its female characters, and, as a result, masculinizes his own narrative romance, "The Knight's Tale." Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Chaucer Yearbook , 1., ( 1992): Pages 65 - 86.
Year of Publication: 1992.

46. Record Number: 6677
Author(s): Sciascia, Laura.
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Title : Scene da un matrimonio: Eleonora d'Aragona e Giovanni Chiaromonte [after other marriage plans failed, Frederick III of Sicily married Eleonora, his illegitimate daughter, to Giovanni Chiaromonte, one of his most important vassals; Eleonora found herself involved in her husband's efforts to avenge his sister's repudiation by her husband, Francesco Ventimiglia; Eleonora's husband died after further misadventures, and their daughter did not survive much longer; nevertheless Eleonora held onto the Chiaromonte estates into old age, and her beauty was praised by Boccaccio; the appendix presents the Latin text of the promise of matrimony between Eleonora and Giovanni Chiaromonte].

Source: Quaderni Medievali , 31., (giugno 1991): Pages 121 - 129.
Year of Publication: 1991.

47. Record Number: 11046
Author(s): Baskins, Cristelle L.
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Title : Griselda, or the Renaissance Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelor in Tuscan "Cassone Painting" [The author discusses key scenes of Griselda's bridal nudity in Renaissance cassone painting, and argues that these depictions resist simple interpretations either as allegorical icons or reflections of social history. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Stanford Italian Review , 10., 2 ( 1991): Pages 153 - 175.
Year of Publication: 1991.

48. Record Number: 16591
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Title : Marguerite Reads Giovanni: Gender and Narration in the "Heptaméron" and the "Decameron" [The article studies the ways in which Marguerite de Navarre rewrites the gender of Boccaccio's narrative voice in her translation, thereby questioning the function of gender in authorship. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme New Series , 1 ( 1991): Pages 21 - 36.
Year of Publication: 1991.

49. Record Number: 11790
Author(s): Sinicropi, Giovanni.
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Title : Chastity and Love in the Decameron [The author studies the differences between the Decameron story of Nastagio degli Onesti and its sources, showing that Boccaccio’s version’s affirms social harmony and marriage. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World. Edited by Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector . State University of New York Press, 1991. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme New Series , 1 ( 1991): Pages 104 - 120.
Year of Publication: 1991.

50. Record Number: 9546
Author(s): Mieszkowski, Gretchen.
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Title : Chaucer’s Much Loved Criseyde [Chaucer portrays Criseyde as weak, inconsistent, and lacking selfhood, and this portrayal is in accordance with the Western male’s tendency to define his selfhood in opposition to a non-human female Other. Chaucer alters Criseyde from her literary precursor Criseida (from Boccaccio’s "Filostrato") by increasing Criseyde’s passivity; thus he renders her more pointedly feminine and attractive to male readers (including male literary critics). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Chaucer Review , 26., 2 ( 1991): Pages 109 - 132.
Year of Publication: 1991.

51. Record Number: 13055
Author(s): Sherberg, Michael.
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Title : The Patriarch's Pleasure and the Frametale Crisis: "Decameron" IV-V [The author argues that the various storytellers react to Filostrato's theme for Day IV which reinstitutes the male order and denies women any choice in love. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Romance Quarterly , 38., 2 (May 1991): Pages 227 - 238.
Year of Publication: 1991.

52. Record Number: 8650
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Alibech el il deserto [Boccaccio’s tale of Alibech apes exempla about holy hermits. Human nature leads the pious Alibech and the holy hermit into sin. This tale was told when Italy was full of urban recluses like Margaret of Cortona, but it is set in a woodland. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Stanford Italian Review , 10., 2 ( 1991): Pages 403 - 414. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78.
Year of Publication: 1990.

53. Record Number: 28726
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Title : Fortune's Wheel

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54. Record Number: 28813
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Title : Thamyris

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55. Record Number: 30930
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Title : Story of Adam and Eve

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Title : The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part III)

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Title : Sappho teaching her students

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