Boccaccian Renaissance

Martin Eisner is associate professor of Italian studies at Duke University. He is the author of Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular.David Lummus is assistant director of the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame and editor of the American Boccaccio Association's Lectura Boccaccii for Day 6 of the Decameron. His publications on Boccaccio and Petrarch have appeared in Speculum and Renaissance Quarterly.

"A Boccaccian Renaissance opens a window on various aspects of Boccaccio studies and provides insights into literary and cultural trends across centuries, countries, and languages, which will certainly be of great interest to scholars of the early modern period." —Sixteenth Century Journal"The book enhances in a number of ways our knowledge of Boccaccio's legacy in the Renaissance, particularly in the area of the history of the book, but also Boccaccio's significance as a political thinker, his obsession with the pastoral, his role in the birth of Renaissance comedy, and new aspects of his influence in France, Spain, and England. The scholarship is very sound, as most contributors are acknowledged leaders in their fields." —Martin McLaughlin, University of Oxford"Giovanni Boccaccio's presence as it radiates through time and space is captured and distilled in this elegantly conceived volume. Martin Eisner and David Lummus have gathered and framed twelve distinguished essays on the 'Renaissance Boccaccio'; together they offer a compelling reexamination of the impact of this most generous of Italy's tre corone." —Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University"This is a collection of strong essays by leading experts in the field that break new ground in our understanding of the diverse reworkings of Boccaccio's works in the Renaissance and beyond, both in Italy and in Europe. These contributions are independently rigorous and original works. The book will be useful to readers in a variety of fields in studies of medieval and Renaissance Italian and European traditions and beyond. I agree wholeheartedly with the editors that the chapters 'leave signs of how much work still needs to be done and from what perspective that work must begin.'" —Kristina M. Olson, George Mason University

• Introduction: "Finding the Renaissance Boccaccio" by Martin Eisner and David LummusPart 1. Boccaccio and Renaissance Humanism1. "Boccaccio and the Political Thought of Renaissance Humanism" by James Hankins2. "Boccaccio's Humanist Brigata: Reading the Decameron in the Quattrocento" by Timothy KircherPart 2. Framing the Renaissance Boccaccio3. "Poets Prefer Company: Boccaccio's Portraits and the Three Crowns of Florence" by Victoria Kirkham4. "Under the Cover of a Green-Hued Book: Boccaccio's Pastoral Project" by Jonathan Combs-Schilling5. "Squarzafico's Vita di Boccaccio and Early Modern Print Culture: A New Model for the Study of Biography" by Rhiannon Daniels6. "Vernacularizing the Latin Boccaccio In Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy: Notes on Niccolò Liburnio's Delli Monti, Selve, Boschi and Giuseppe Betussi's Genealogia De Gli Dei" by Simon GilsonPart 3. Boccaccio in Renaissance Italy7. "Along the Path of Disaster: The Decameron and Bembo's Prose" by Michael Sherberg8. "'For instruction and benefit': The Renaissance Boccaccio as Model of Language and Life" by Brian Richardson9. "De nuptiis comoediae et novellae: Italian Comedy Receives Boccaccio's Decameron (1486-1533)" by Ronald L. MartinezPart 4. Boccaccio in Renaissance Europe10. "Language, Nation, Translation: When Boccaccio's Unnatural Prose Becomes 'le commun langaige Francoys'" by Marc Schachter11. "Boccaccio in the Spanish Renaissance: Juan de Flores's Grimalte y Gradisa" by Ignacio Navarrete12. "Regendering Griselda on the London Stage" by Janet Levarie Smarr