Bibliography of the Decameron Web
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- Boccaccio, Giovanni. G. H. McWilliam, trans. The Decameron. London: Penguin Books, 1972.
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- Clements, Robert J. and Joseph Gibaldi. Anatomy of the Novella. The European Tale Collection from Boccaccio and Chaucer to Cervantes. New York: NYUP, 1977.
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- 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.
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- Donaggio, Monica. "Il Travestimento nel Decameron." Studi sul Decameron. Firenze: Le Lettere, 1988.
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- 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.
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- Giardini, Maria Pia. Tradizioni popolari nel "Decameron". Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1965
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Le Goff, Jacques. "Head or Heart." Zone 3 (1989): 13-27.
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- 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.
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