Bibliography of the Decameron

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Abrams, M. H. et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1993.
Albert the Great, St. The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus. Michael R. Best and Frank H. Brightman, eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.
Almansi, Guido. The Writer as Liar. Narrative Technique in the Decameron. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975.
Ascoli, Albert Russell. “The Unfinished Author: Dante’s Rhetoric of Authority in Convivio and De vulgari eloquentia.” The Cambridge Companion to Dante. Rachel Jacoff, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 46-47.
Barolini, Teodolinda. “The Wheel of the Decameron.” Romance Philology 36 (1983): 521-539.
Beck, Eleonora. Singing in the Garden: Music and Culture in Trecento Tuscany. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, forthcoming.
Beck, Eleonora. “A Musical Interpretation of Andrea di Bonaiuto’s Allegory of the Dominican Order.” Imago musicae 12 (1995): 123-138.
Beer, Frances. Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1992.
Berger, Sidney E. “Sex in the Literature of the Middle Ages: The Fabliaux.” Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church. Vern L. Bullough and James Brundage, eds. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1982, pp. 162-75.
Bernardo, Aldo S. “The Plague as Key to Meaning in Boccaccio’s Decameron.” in The Black Death. Daniel Williman, ed. Binghamton, New York: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1982. 39-64.
Bhatta, Somadeva. Kathá Sarit Ságara or Ocean of the Streams of Story. C. H. Tawney, trans. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1968.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. G. H. McWilliam, trans. The Decameron. London: Penguin Books, 1972.
Bolter, Jay. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum and Assoc., 1991.
Bonaventura, Arnaldo. Il Boccaccio e la musica: studio e trascrizioni musicali. Torino: Fratelli Bocca, 1914.
Bowles, Edmund. “Haut and bas: The Grouping of Musical Instruments during the Middle Ages.” Musica Disciplina 8 (1954): 115-40.
Bowles, Edmund. Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages. Paris: Minkoff and Lattes, 1983.
Bragantini, Renzo and Pier Massimo Forni, eds. Lessico critico decameroniano. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1995.
Branca, Vittore. “Interpretazioni Visuali del Decameron.” Studi sul Boccaccio 15 (1987): 87-119.
Brown, Howard Mayer. “Fantasia on a Theme by Boccaccio.” Early Music 5 (1977): 324-39.
Brucker, Gene. Florentine Politics and Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962.
Brundage, James A. Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Brundage, James A. “Sex and Canon Law.” Handbook of Medieval Sexuality. Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, eds. New York: Garland, 1996. pp. 33-50.
Bullough, Vern L. “Prostitution in the Later Middle Ages.” Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church. Vern L. Bullough and James Brundage, eds. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1982. pp. 176-86.
Bynum, C. W. Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. New York: Zone Books, 1991.
Calvino, Italo. Perchè leggere i classici. Milano: Mondadori, 1995.
Campbell, Anne. The Black Death and Men of Learning. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931.
Christensen, Jerome. “The Associationist Precedent for Coleridge’s Late Poems.” Philosophical Approaches to Literature: New Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Texts. William E. Cain, ed. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1984.
Cioffari, Vincenzo. “The Conception of Fortune in the Decameron.” Italica 17 (1940): 135.
Cioffari, Vincenzo. “The Function of Fortune in Dante, Boccaccio and Machiavelli.” Italica 25 (1947): 1-13.
Cipolla, Carlo. La storia politica di Verona. Verona: Valdonega, 1954.
Clements, Robert J. and Joseph Gibaldi. Anatomy of the Novella. The European Tale Collection from Boccaccio and Chaucer to Cervantes. New York: NYUP, 1977.
Cohn, Norman. Europe’s Inner Demons. London: Paladin, 1976
Cole, Bruce. Giotto and Florentine Painting, 1280-1375. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. E. H. Coleridge, ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1912.
Corsi, Giuseppe, ed. Poesie Musicali del Trecento. Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970.
Courie, Leonard W. The Black Death and Peasant’s Revolt. New York: Wayland Publishers, 1972.
D’Andrea, Antonio. “Le rubriche del Decameron.” Yearbook of Italian Studies (1973-1975): 41-67.
da Prato, Giovanni Gherardi. Il Paradiso Degli Alberti. Antonio Lanza, ed. Roma: Salerno Editrice, 1975.
Deaux,George. The Black Death 1347. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1969.
Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1960-.
Donaggio, Monica. “Il Travestimento nel Decameron.” Studi sul Decameron. Firenze: Le Lettere, 1988.
Doueihi, Milad. “The Lure of the Heart.” Stanford French Review 14 (Spring-Fall 1990): 51-68.
Doueihi, Milad. “Cor ne Edito.” Modern Language Notes 108.4 (1993): 696-709.
Eco, Umberto. The Role of the Reader. Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
Enciclopedia dantesca. Umberto Bosco, ed. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1970-1978.
Fairchild, Hoxie Neale. The Romantic Quest. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931.
Favier, Jean. Charlemagne. Paris: Fayard, 1999.
Ferrante, Joan. “The Frame Characters of the Decameron. A Progression of Virtues.” Romance Philology 19.2 (1965): 212-26.
Ferroni, Giulio. Storia della letteratura italiana, vol. I “Dalle origini al Quattrocento”. Turin: Einaudi, 1991.
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism. New York: Atheneum, 1969.
Gallo, F. Alberto. Music of the Middle Ages II. Karen Eales, trans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse. Jane E. Lewin, tr. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Getz, Faye Marie. “Black Death and the Silver Lining; Meaning, Continuity, and Revolutionary Change in Histories of Medieval Plague.” Journal of the History of Biology 24.2 (1991): 265-89.
Giardini, Maria Pia. Tradizioni popolari nel “Decameron”. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1965
Gottfried, Robert S. The Black Death. New York: The Free Press, 1983.
Greene, Richard Leighton. s.v. “Fortune.” Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol. 3, Joseph R Strayer, ed. New York: Scribner’s, 1983. 145-47.
Greimas, A. J. Sémantique structurale. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1986.
Gurevich, Aron J. “The Merchant,” in The Medieval World. Jacques Le Goff, ed. Lydia G. Cochrane, trans. London: Collins & Brown, 1990.
Harding, Anthony John. Coleridge and the Idea of Love. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Hastings, R. Nature and Reason in the Decameron. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1975.
Heath, Stephen. “Narrative Space.” Questions of Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. 33-34.
Herlihy, David. The Black Death and the Transformation of the West, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997
Histoire littéraire de la France, ouvrage commencé par des religieux bénédictins de la Congrégation de Saint Maur, et continué par des membres de l’Institut (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres). Paris: V. Palme, 1875.
Holland, Eugene W. “Boccaccio and Freud: A Figural Narrative Model for the Decameron” Essays Volume III: Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1985.
Hollander, Robert. Boccaccio’s Two Venuses. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.
Hollander, Robert. “The Proem of the Decameron: Boccaccio between Ovid and Dante.” Miscellanea di Studi Danteschi in memoria di Silvio Pasquazi. Alfonso Paolella et al., eds. Napoli: Federico & Ardia, 1993. 423-38.
Jay, Martin. “Scopic Regimes of Modernity.” Vision and Visuality. Hal Foster, ed. Seattle: Bay Press, 1988. 4-8.
Kaplan, Nancy. “E-literacies,” Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 2.3 (1995).
Karras, Ruth Mazo. “Prostitution in Medieval Europe.” Handbook of Medieval Sexuality. Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, eds. New York: Garland, 1996. pp. 243-60.
Kirkham, Victoria. “An Allegorically Tempered Decameron.” Italica 62.1 (1985): 1-23.
Kleinhenz, Christopher. “Texts, Naked and Thinly Veiled: Erotic Elements in Medieval Italian Literature.” Sex in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays Joyce E. Salisbury, ed. New York: Garland, 1991.
Kraus, Edward Henry and Edward Fuller Holden. Gems and Gem Materials. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1925.
Landau, David & Peter Parshall. The Renaissance Print 1470-1550. New Haven: Yale UP, 1994.
Landow, George. Hypertext. The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word. Democracy, Technology and the Arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Lawton, Ben. “Boccaccio and Pasolini: A Contemporary Interpretation of the Decameron.” The Decameron: A New Translation. Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella, trans. and eds. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977. 306-22.
Le Goff, Jacques. “Head or Heart.” Zone 3 (1989): 13-27.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Anthropologie structurale. Paris: Plon, 1974.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Raw and the Cooked. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1975.
Long, Michael. “Francesco Landini and the Florentine Cultural Elite.” Early Music History 3 (1983): 83-99.
Long, Michael. “Landini’s Musical Patrimony: A Reassessment of Some Compositional Conventions in Trecento Polyphony.” Journal of the American Musicological Association 40 (1987): 31-52.
Long, Michael. Trecento Italy. Music and Society Antiquity and the Middle Ages. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1991.
Lotman, Jurij M. “La composizione dell’opera letteraria.” La struttura del testo poetico. Eridano Bazzarelli, ed. Milano: Mursia, 1972.
Lotman, Jurij M. and Boris A. Uspenskij. “Il problema dello spazio artistico in Gogol.” Tipologia della cultura. Milano: Bompiani, 1975.
Luther, Susan. “The Lost Garden of Coleridge.” The Wordsworth Circle 22:1 (1991): 24-30.
Marcus, Millicent. “Seduction by Silence: A Gloss on the Tales of Masetto (III, I) and Alatiel (II, 7).” Philological Quarterly 58 (1979): 1-15.
Marcus, Millicent. An Allegory of Form: Literary Self Consciousness in the Decameron. Stanford: Anma Libri, 1979.
Marino Lucia. The Decameron Cornice: Allusion, Allegory and Iconology. Ravenna: Longo, 1979.
Marks, Geoffrey. The Medieval Plague: The Black Death of the Middle Ages. New York: Doubleday, 1971.
Martínez Díez, Gonzalo Alfonso VIII, rey de Castilla y Toledo. Burgos: Editorial la Olmeda, 1995.
Mattzke, John. “The Legend of the Eaten Heart.” Modern Language Notes 26.1 (1911): 1-8.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. “The Decameron: The Literal and the Allegorical,” Italian Quarterly 18 (1975): 59-60.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. The World at Play in Boccaccio’s Decameron. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986.
Meyer-Baer, Kathi. Music of the Spheres and the Dance of Death: Studies in Musical Iconology. New York: Da Capo Press, 1984.
Minnis, A. J. Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
Moore, R. I.. The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1987.
Muscetta, Carlo. “Giovanni Boccaccio.” Letteratura italiana Laterza. Bari: Laterza, 1989.
Nadas, John. “The Squarcialupi Codex: An Edition of Trecento Songs.” Il codice Squarcialupi: Ms. Mediceo Palatino 87, Biblioteca laurenziana di Firenze. F. Alberto Gallo, ed. Firenze: Guinti Barbera, 1992. 19-86
Ó Cuilleanáin, Cormac. Religion and the Clergy in Boccaccio’s Decameron. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1984.
Olson, Glending. Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.
Paden, Michael. “Elissa: La Ghibellina del Decameron.” Studi sul Boccaccio 21 (1993): 139-50.
Page, Christopher. The Owl and the Nightingale: Musical Life and Ideas in France 1100-1300. London: J. M. Dent, 1989.
Paley, Morton D. Coleridge’s Later Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Pasquini, E. and A. Quaglio. Lo stilnovo e la poesia relgiosa. Bari: Laterza, 1971.
Patch, H. R. The Goddess Fortuna in Medieval Literature. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1927.
Paulson, William. “Computers, Minds and Texts: Preliminary Reflections,” New Literary History 20 (1989): 291-303.
Pirrotta, Nino. “Dante Musicus: Gothicism Scholasticism and Music.” Speculum 43 (1968): 245-57.
Pirrotta, Nino. “Marchettus de Padua and the Italian Ars Nova.” Musica Disciplina 9 (1955): 57-71.
Pirrotta, Nino. Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque: A Collection of Essays. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Pirrotta, Nino, ed. The Music of Fourteenth Century Italy. 5 Vols, 1954-.
Pirrotta, Nino. Oral and Written Traditions. Music and Culture in Italy from the Medieval to Baroque: A Collection of Essays. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Prince, Gerald. Narratology: the Form and Functioning of Narrative. New York: Mouton, 1982.
Procter, B. W. The Flood of Thessaly. New York: Garland, 1978.
Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Laurence Scott, tr. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968.
Quaglio, A. E. La poesia realistica e la prosa del Duecento. Bari: Laterza, 1981.
Quintana, Manuel José. El Cid, Guzmán el Bueno, Roger de Lauria. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1959.
Ricci, Lucia Battaglia, ed. Novelle italiane. Il Duecento. Il Trecento. Milano: Garzanti, 1982.
Richards, Jeffrey. Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Rossi, L. “Il cuore, mistico pasto d’amore: dal ‘Lai Guirun’ al Decameron.” Studi Provenzali e Francesi 1982. L’Aquila: Japadre, 1983.
Rumble, Patrick. “Framing Boccaccio.” Allegories of Contamination: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Sachs, Curt. The History of Musical Instruments. New York: W. W. Norton, 1940.
Salisbury, Joyce E. “Gendered Sexuality.” Handbook of Medieval Sexuality. Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, eds. New York: Garland, 1996. pp. 81-102.
Schevill, Ferdinand. The History of Florence from the Founding of the City through the Renaissance, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1936.
Segre, Cesare. Le strutture e il tempo. Torino: Einaudi, 1974
Sherberg, Michael. “The Patriarch’s Pleasure and the Frametale crisis: Decameron IV-V.” Romance Quartery 38.2 (1991): 227-38.
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Stillinger, Jack. “Keats and Romance.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 8 (1968): 593-605.
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