Heliotropia 700/10. A Boccaccio Anniversary Volume (Colloquium)

In honor of the seven hundredth anniversary of Boccaccio's birth and in celebration of its first decade of life, Heliotropia, the journal of the American Boccaccio Association, has collected in this volume a series of critical essays on one of the most important writers of the Middle Ages. TABLE of CONTENTS: Preface - Editor's Notes (2003) - Messer Decameron Galeotto. Un titolo e una chiave di lettura (Marco Veglia) - Decameron 2.4: the Matrices of Voice (H. Wayne Storey) - Andreuccio at the Well: Sanitation Infrastructure and Civic Values in Decameron 2.5 (M. Fritz-Morkin) - The Motto and the Enigma: Rhetoric and Knowledge in the Sixth Day of the Decameron (F. Andrei) - Calandrino and the Powers of the Stone: Rhetoric, Belief and the Progress of Ingegno in Decameron 8.3 (R.L. Martinez) - Il vino di Boccaccio: Usi e abusi in alcune novelle del Decameron (G. Spani) - Figurative Language and Sex Wars in the Decameron (M. Migiel) - The Marriage of Plautus and Boccaccio (J. Smarr) - Elissa as a New Dido: Greece, the East, and the Westward Movement of Culture in the Decameron (C. Livanos) - Intertestualità tra Decameron e De mulieribus claris: La tragica storia di Tisbe e Piramo (E. Filosa) - Boccaccio's Vernacular Classicism: Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in the Decameron (S. Marchesi) - "Women Make All Things Lose Their Power": Women's Knowledge, Men's Fear in the Decameron and the Corbaccio (F.R. Psaki) - La fucina delle finzioni: Le novelle e le origini del romanzo (E. Menetti) - Phaethon's Old Age in the Genealogie and the Decameron (N. Cleaver) - The Language of Women as Written by Men: Boccaccio, Dante and Gendered Histories of the Vernacular (K. Olson) - Boccaccio on Readers and Reading (J. Usher) - On Seneca, Mussato, Trevet and the Boethian "Tragedies" of the De casibu (M. Papio) - Bibliography - The Authors and Their Abstracts.