The Italian Novella

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ISBN: 9780415937252 | 0415937256
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/8/2002

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The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out ofexemplaand didactic literature and contributed to modern narrative forms. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to comprehensive scholarship on the Italian novella. The essays range from work on theDecameron, the epitome of the genre, to studies of sixteenth century authors who often utilized transgressive or sexual themes in their novellas.

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Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Lies My Father Told Me: Boccaccio's Novelletta of Filippo Balducci and His Son	p. 15
The Crisis of Word and Deed in Decameron V, 10	p. 33
Master and Servant Roles in the Decameron	p. 49
Telling Lies, Telling Lives: Giovanni Sercambi between Cronaca and Novella	p. 69
Sercambi's Novelliere and Croniche as Evidence for Musical Entertainment in the Fourteenth Century	p. 81
The Lover Praised by the Husband: A Courtly Tale between Exemplum and Novella	p. 105
Masuccio Salernitano's Gusto dell'orrido	p. 119
Imitation and Subversion of Models in Agnolo Firenzuola's I Ragionamenti	p. 137
Alterity and Sexual Transgression in the Sixteenth-Century Tuscan Novella	p. 159
Animal Anxieties: Straparola's "Il re porco"	p. 179
The Motif of the Woman in Male Disguise from Boccaccio to Bigolina	p. 201
Contributors	p. 219
Author/Title Index	p. 221
Subject Index	p. 231
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