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Medieval Vernacular Literature: Boccaccio

Library and Internet resources about medieval literature in European vernacular languages.

Overview

Bibliographies
Critical Editions
Manuscript Catalogs
Secondary Sources
Websites

Critical Editions

Boccaccio's Last Fiction, "Il Corbaccio" by Robert Hollander
Call Number: PQ4270.C73 H65 1988

"Fortune and her wheel" from De Casibus Virorum Illustrium
Glasgow MSS Hunter 371-372, vol. 1, f. 1r

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio; G. H. McWilliam (Translator)
Call Number: PQ4272.E5 A395 2003
De casibus illustrium virorum
Call Number: PQ4274 .D1 1520a

A facsim. reproduction of the Paris ed. of 1520

Manuscript Catalogs

Die Boccaccio-Handschriften in den deutschsprachigen Ländern by Michael Dallapiazza.
Call Number: Z8106 .D35 1988

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Leuchtendes Mittelalter. Neue Folge I, Boccaccio und Petrarca in Pari by Eberhard König
Call Number: ND2899.5 .H48 1997

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref

Bibliographies

Bibliografia boccaccesca. I: Scritti intorno al Boccaccio e alla fortuna delle sue opere. by Guido Traversari
Call Number: PQ4277 .T73 1973
Giovanni Boccaccio : an annotated bibliography by Joseph P. Consoli
Call Number: PQ4277 .C66 1992 Nearby on shelf

Secondary Sources

Boccaccio: the man and his work by Vittore Branca; Dennis J. McCauliffe (Editor, Translator); Richard Monges (Translator)
Call Number: PQ4277 .B7 1976
Giovanni Boccaccio : an annotated bibliography by Joseph P. Consoli
Call Number: PQ4277 .C66 1992
Chaucer, Boccaccio and the Debate of Love by N. S. Thompson
Call Number: PR1874 .T47 1996
The Decameron First Day in Perspective by Elissa B. Weaver (Editor)
Call Number: PQ4287 .D42 2004
Boccaccio by David J. Wallace
Call Number: PQ4287 .W35 1991
Visualizing Boccaccio by Jill M. Ricketts: : studies in illustrations of The Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini
Call Number: PQ4287 .R44 1997
Before the Knight's Tale: imitation of classical epic in Boccaccio's Teseida by David Anderson; Giovanni Boccaccio
Call Number: PQ4270.T43 A54 1988

Websites

Decameron Web
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