Reconsidering Boccaccio explores the exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range of the Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio, his dialogue with voices and traditions that surrounded him, and the way that his legacy illuminates the interconnectivity of numerous cultural networks.

Edited by Olivia Holmes and Dana E. Stewart

Olivia Holmes and Dana Stewart (Binghamton University), Introduction

I MATERIAL CONTEXTS

1. 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: FRIENDSHIP

3. 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 LAW

5. 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 WOMEN

9. 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 INTERTEXTS

12. 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"