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1. Record Number: 14140 Author(s): Baskins, Cristelle L. Contributor(s): 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.  Pages 81 - 99. Year of Publication: 2005.

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2. Record Number: 12607 Author(s): Krueger, Roberta L. Contributor(s): 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.  Pages 71 - 88. Year of Publication: 2004.

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3. Record Number: 8081 Author(s): Migiel, Marilyn. Contributor(s): 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.  Pages 164 - 179. Year of Publication: 2002.

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4. Record Number: 9321 Author(s): Riva, Massimo. Contributor(s): 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.

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5. Record Number: 20896 Author(s): Morosini, Roberta Contributor(s): 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.

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6. Record Number: 4508 Author(s): Contributor(s): 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.

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7. Record Number: 5481 Author(s): Paolino, Laura. Contributor(s): 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.

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8. Record Number: 10160 Author(s): Lacroix, Jean. Contributor(s): Title : Les Nus du "Decameron" (pour une erotique Boccacienne) Source: Études Médiévales , 1., ( 1999):  Pages 129 - 148. Year of Publication: 1999.

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9. Record Number: 4210 Author(s): Contributor(s): 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.

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10. Record Number: 3957 Author(s): Migiel, Marilyn. Contributor(s): 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.

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11. Record Number: 6431 Author(s): Picone, Michelangelo. Contributor(s): 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.

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12. Record Number: 3782 Author(s): Contributor(s): 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.

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13. Record Number: 6366 Author(s): Cavallero, Daniela. Contributor(s): 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.

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14. 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.

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15. Record Number: 3295 Author(s): Ruhe, Ernstpeter. Contributor(s): Title : Intertextueller Dialog im Decamerone Source: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen , 233., ( 1996):  Pages 52 - 64. Year of Publication: 1996.

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16. Record Number: 1632 Author(s): Godorecci, Barbara J. Contributor(s): 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.

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17. Record Number: 5600 Author(s): Bisanti, Armando. Contributor(s): 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.

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18. Record Number: 463 Author(s): Moe, Nelson. Contributor(s): 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.

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19. Record Number: 234 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Converting Alibech: "Nunc Spiritu Copuleris" Source: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 25., 2 (Spring 1995):  Pages 207 - 227. Year of Publication: 1995.

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20. Record Number: 1703 Author(s): Mühlethaler, Jean- Claude. Contributor(s): 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) 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 209 - 220. Year of Publication: 1995.

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21. 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.

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22. Record Number: 6430 Author(s): Paden, Michael. Contributor(s): 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.

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23. Record Number: 11046 Author(s): Baskins, Cristelle L. Contributor(s): 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.

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24. Record Number: 16591 Author(s): Contributor(s): 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.

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25. Record Number: 11790 Author(s): Sinicropi, Giovanni. Contributor(s): 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.

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26. Record Number: 13055 Author(s): Sherberg, Michael. Contributor(s): 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.

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27. Record Number: 8650 Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti. Contributor(s): 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.

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28. Record Number: 34917 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part III) Source: Stanford Italian Review , 10., 2 ( 1991): Year of Publication:

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