The Italian Novella

Gloria Allaire

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781135354671
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of exempla and didactic literature and contributed to modern narrative forms. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to comprehensive scholarship on the Italian novella. The essays range from work on the Decameron , the epitome of the genre, to studies of sixteenth century authors who often utilized transgressive or sexual themes in their novellas.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Lies My Father Told Me: Boccaccio's Novelletta of Filippo Balducci and His Son
• 2. The Crisis of Word and Deed in Decameron V, 10
• 3. Master and Servant Roles in the Decameron
• 4. Telling Lies, Telling Lives: Giovanni Sercambi between Cronaca and Novella
• 5. Sercambi's Novelliere and Croniche as Evidence for Musical Entertainment in the Fourteenth Century
• 6. The Lover Praised by the Husband: A Courtly Tale between Exemplum and Novella
• 7. Masuccio Salernitano's Gusto dell'orrido
• 8. Imitation and Subversion of Models in Agnolo Firenzuola's I Ragionamenti
• 9. Alterity and Sexual Transgression in the Sixteenth-Century Tuscan Novella
• 10. Animal Anxieties: Straparola's ‘Il re porco’
• 11. The Motif of the Woman in Male Disguise from Boccaccio to Bigolina
• Contributors
• Author/Title Index
• Subject Index