Reconsidering Boccaccio

Olivia Holmes is a professor of English and Medieval Studies in the Department of English and the Center for Medieval Studies and Renaissance at Binghamton University.Dana E. Stewart is an associate professor of Italian and Medieval Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University.

"This collection of essays, which moves from the close examination of Boccaccio’s own manuscript of the Decameron to the larger social and legal contextualization of his works to their reception in Renaissance Europe, will prove a valuable point of reference to students and scholars of Boccaccio for years to come."- David G. Lummus, University of Notre Dame (Speculum) "This is a learned and provocative set of essays that should interest any scholar working in early modern European or Mediterranean studies."- Brenda Deen Schildgen, University of California, Davis (, University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018)

• Olivia Holmes and Dana Stewart (Binghamton University), IntroductionI MATERIAL CONTEXTS1. K. P. Clarke (University of York), "Text and (Inter)Face: The Catchwords in Boccaccio’s Autograph of the Decameron"2. Rhiannon Daniels (University of Bristol), "Reading Boccaccio’s Paratexts: Dedications as Thresholds between Worlds"II SOCIAL CONTEXTS: FRIENDSHIP3. Jason Houston (University of Oklahoma), "Boccaccio on Friendships (Theory and Practice)"4. Todd Boli (Independent Scholar), "Among Boccaccio’s Friends: A Profile of Mainardo Cavalcanti"III SOCIAL CONTEXTS: GENDER, MARRIAGE, AND THE LAW5. Alessia Ronchetti (University of Cambridge), "Reading Like a Woman: Gendering Compassion in the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta"6. Grace Delmolino (Columbia University), "The Economics of Conjugal Debt from Gratian’s Decretum to Decameron 2.10: Boccaccio, Canon Law, and the Loss of Interest in Sex"7. Sara Diaz (Fairfield University), "Authority and Misogamy in Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante"8. Mary Anne Case (University of Chicago Law School), "What Turns on Whether Women are Human for Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan?"IV POLITICAL AND AUTHORIAL CONTEXTS: ON FAMOUS WOMEN9. Elizabeth Casteen (Binghamton University), "On She-Wolves and Famous Women: Boccaccio, Politics, and the Neapolitan Court"10. Kevin Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania), "Christine Transforms Boccaccio: Gendered Authorship in the De mulieribus claris and the Cité des Dames"11. Lori Walters (Florida State University), "Reading like a Frenchwoman: Christine de Pizan’s Treatment of Boccaccio’s Johanna I and Andrea Acciaiu"V LITERARY INTERTEXTS12. Franklin Lewis (University of Chicago), "A Persian in a Pear Tree: Middle Eastern Analogues for Pirro/Pyrrhus"13. Katherine A. Brown (Princeton University), "Splitting Pants and Pigs: The Fabliau Barat et Haimet and Narrative Strategies in Decameron 8.5 and 8.6"14. Filippo Andrei (University of California, Berkeley), "The Tragicomedy of Lament: The Celestina and the Elegiac Legacy of Madonna Fiammetta"15. Nora Peterson (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), "Sins, Sex, and Secrets: The Legacy of Confession from the Decameron to the Heptaméron"