Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators.
Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators.
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Translation and Transcription Introduction 1. “Here begynneth the book callyd J. Bochas”: The De casibus virorum illustrium between Italy and England 2. The Production Context of Boccaccio’s De casibus virorum illustrium (1360–1373) 3. Form and Functions of the De casibus’s Internal Structures 4. The Production Context of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes (1400–1409) 5. The Production Context of John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes (1431–1439) 6. Conclusion 1. The De mulieribus claris in English Translation, 1440–1550 00 2. The Production Context of Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris (1361–1375) 3. The Middle English Translation of the De mulieribus claris (c. 1440–1460) 4. Henry Parker, Lord Morley’s Of the Ryghte Renoumyde Ladies (c. 1543) 5. Conclusion 6. Boccaccio in Print in the Sixteenth Century 7. European Romance and the French Sending Culture 8. The 1560s: Pleasant Reading (The Palace of Pleasure and A Pleasaunt Disport of Diuers Noble Personages) 9. The 1580s: Amorous Fiammetta 10. The 1590s: A Famous Tragicall Discourse of Two Lovers, Affrican and Mensola 11. Conclusion 12. “One Hundred Ingenious Novels”: Refashioning the Decameron, 1620–1930 13. The Seventeenth Century: The Translatio Princeps 14. The Eighteenth Century: Excision and Restoration 15. The Nineteenth Century: Through the Peephole 16. Establishing Canonicity: Dubois’s 1804 Edition 17. The 1820s: Griffin’s Serial Decameron and Sharp’s Decameron 18. Mid-century Editions and Popular Readerships: Daly, Bohn, and Blanchard 19. A Limited Licentiousness: John Payne’s Translation 20. The 1890s: Eroticism and Display 21. The Twentieth Century: A Multitude of Decamerons 22. The Decameron in 1930 23. Conclusion 24. The Minor Works in the Nineteenth Century: Dante and Chaucer 25. Neo-medievalism, Dante, and Chaucer 26. Boccaccio and the Academy: The Case of the Trattatello 27. Conclusion 28. The Early Twentieth-Century Recovery of the Minor Works 29. The Author as Lover: The 1907 Fiammetta 30. The Latin Boccaccio Rediscovered: Olympia and the Genealogia 31. Two American Filostratos of the 1920s 32. The Republication of the Historic English Translations 33. The Fall of Princes 34. The De mulieribus claris 35. The Fiammetta 36. The Thirteen Questions 37. Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Translation and Transcription Introduction 1. “Here begynneth the book callyd J. Bochas”: The De casibus virorum illustrium between Italy and England 2. The Production Context of Boccaccio’s De casibus virorum illustrium (1360–1373) 3. Form and Functions of the De casibus’s Internal Structures 4. The Production Context of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes (1400–1409) 5. The Production Context of John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes (1431–1439) 6. Conclusion 1. The De mulieribus claris in English Translation, 1440–1550 00 2. The Production Context of Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris (1361–1375) 3. The Middle English Translation of the De mulieribus claris (c. 1440–1460) 4. Henry Parker, Lord Morley’s Of the Ryghte Renoumyde Ladies (c. 1543) 5. Conclusion 6. Boccaccio in Print in the Sixteenth Century 7. European Romance and the French Sending Culture 8. The 1560s: Pleasant Reading (The Palace of Pleasure and A Pleasaunt Disport of Diuers Noble Personages) 9. The 1580s: Amorous Fiammetta 10. The 1590s: A Famous Tragicall Discourse of Two Lovers, Affrican and Mensola 11. Conclusion 12. “One Hundred Ingenious Novels”: Refashioning the Decameron, 1620–1930 13. The Seventeenth Century: The Translatio Princeps 14. The Eighteenth Century: Excision and Restoration 15. The Nineteenth Century: Through the Peephole 16. Establishing Canonicity: Dubois’s 1804 Edition 17. The 1820s: Griffin’s Serial Decameron and Sharp’s Decameron 18. Mid-century Editions and Popular Readerships: Daly, Bohn, and Blanchard 19. A Limited Licentiousness: John Payne’s Translation 20. The 1890s: Eroticism and Display 21. The Twentieth Century: A Multitude of Decamerons 22. The Decameron in 1930 23. Conclusion 24. The Minor Works in the Nineteenth Century: Dante and Chaucer 25. Neo-medievalism, Dante, and Chaucer 26. Boccaccio and the Academy: The Case of the Trattatello 27. Conclusion 28. The Early Twentieth-Century Recovery of the Minor Works 29. The Author as Lover: The 1907 Fiammetta 30. The Latin Boccaccio Rediscovered: Olympia and the Genealogia 31. Two American Filostratos of the 1920s 32. The Republication of the Historic English Translations 33. The Fall of Princes 34. The De mulieribus claris 35. The Fiammetta 36. The Thirteen Questions 37. Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index
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