The Italian Novella
- Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (441 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Lies My Father Told Me: Boccaccio's Novelletta of Filippo Balducci and His Son; 2. The Crisis of Word and Deed in Decameron V, 10; 3. Master and Servant Roles in the Decameron; 4. Telling Lies, Telling Lives: Giovanni Sercambi between Cronaca and Novella; 5. Sercambi's Novelliere and Croniche as Evidence for Musical Entertainment in the Fourteenth Century; 6. The Lover Praised by the Husband: A Courtly Tale between Exemplum and Novella; 7. Masuccio Salernitano's Gusto dell'orrido. 8. Imitation and Subversion of Models in Agnolo Firenzuola's I Ragionamenti9. Alterity and Sexual Transgression in the Sixteenth-Century Tuscan Novella; 10. Animal Anxieties: Straparola's 'Il re porco'; 11. The Motif of the Woman in Male Disguise from Boccaccio to Bigolina; Contributors; Author/Title Index; Subject Index.
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.
9781135354671
Novelle--History and criticism--Congresses. Italian fiction--History and criticism--Congresses.