The Filocolo (orig. Il Filocolo) is a novel written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1335–36. It is considered to be the first novel of Italian literature...
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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, respectively), The Filocolo (a prose version of an existing French romance), and La caccia di Diana...
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ISSN 0385-7743 Kirkham, Victoria (2001). Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan...
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synthesis of motifs. Boccaccio wrote a version of the same tale in his "Filocolo", in 1336, while he was in Naples. The tale has been a popular subject...
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ottava rima, used the Sicilian octave a total of once, in his early romance Filocolo. The epitaph of Giulia Topazia is a Sicilian octave: The New Princeton...
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by the Italian poet and author Boccaccio. These appear in Book 4 of Il Filocolo, 1336, and as the 5th tale on the 10th day of the Decameron. In both stories...
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a convent. Fiammetta appears in the following works by Boccaccio: The Filocolo Teseida Il Filostrato Ninfale d'Ameto Amorosa visione Fiammetta (novel)...
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Chaucer's "The Franklin's Tale", itself partly based on Boccaccio's The Filocolo; Dorigen, a married woman whose husband is absent, promises another suitor...
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the early Italian humanists: Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. Boccaccio's Filocolo and Benvenuto da Imola's commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy have been...
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(Canz. 70) and the whole poem is re-written in ottava rima in Boccaccio’s Filocolo (5.62–5). Petrarch also wrote a sonnet on his death (Canz. 92). Cino is...
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but before Burbage's death in March 1619. The authors depended upon the Filocolo of Giovanni Boccaccio as their source, specifically the section of that...
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Vangeli. 167.Giovanni Boccaccio (1938). Salvatore Battaglia (ed.). Il filocolo. 168.Giambattista Vico (1939). Fausto Nicolini (ed.). Scritti storici....
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The most pleasant and delectable questions of love (1931). An edition of Filocolo from a 1566 translation put into modern English by H. G., with an introduction...
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