World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron

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Accademia dei Lincei
Adynaton
Alberto Moravia
Allegory
Andreas Capellanus
Asclepius
Author_Giuseppe Mazzotta
Brunetto Latini
Calandrino
Catachresis
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Cimabue
Circumlocution
Consolatio
Contemptus mundi
Contrapasso
Convivio
Dante Alighieri
De amore (Andreas Capellanus)
Digression
Don Quixote
Epicureanism
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Fabliau
Fiammetta
Foray
Francois Rabelais
Friar
G. (novel)
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
God Knows (novel)
Hyperbole
Isidore of Seville
Jean de Meun
La Vita Nuova
Lactantius
Literature
Magnificence (history of ideas)
Magus (Technarchy)
Martianus Capella
Mimesis
Narrative
Nastagio degli Onesti
Necromancy
Palinode
Parable
Parody
Petrarch
Pleonasm
Pornography
Quibble (plot device)
Quintilian
Rabelais and His World
Rapina
Remedia Amoris
Rhetoric
Ruggiero (character)
Satire
Simile
Simon Magus
The Decameron
The Knight's Tale
The Philosopher
The Reenactment
Tirso de Molina
Trickster
Troilus and Criseyde
Ubi sunt
Usury
Verisimilitude (fiction)
Voluptas

Product details

  • ISBN 9780691610870
  • Weight: 397g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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