Italian Novella

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. <p>Table of Contents: Preface Introduction 1Lies My Father Told Me: Boccaccio's Novelletta of Filippo Balducci and his Son Ernesto Virgulti 2The Crisis of Word and Deed in Decameron V, 10 Susan Gaylard 3Master and Servant Roles in the DecameronCormac Ó Cuilleanáin 4Telling Lies, Telling Lives: Giovanni Sercambi between Cronaca and NovellaMyriam Swennen Ruthenberg 5Sercambi's Novelliere and Croniche as Evidence for Musical Entertainment in the Fourteenth CenturyCathy Ann Elias 6The Lover Praised by the Husband: A Courtly Tale between Exemplum and NovellaMaria Bendinelli Predelli 7Masuccio Salernitano's Gusto dell'orridoMichael Papio 8Imitation and Subversion of Models in Agnolo Firenzuola's I RagionamentiManuela Scarci 9Alterity and Sexual Transgression in the Sixteenth-Century Tuscan NovellaDomenico Zanrè 10Animal Anxieties: Straparola's Il re porcoSuzanne Magnanini 11The Motif of the Woman in Male Disguise from Boccaccio to BigolinaChristopher Nissen List of Contributors Index</p>