Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: Material Contexts
7. 1. Text and (Inter)Face: The Catchwords in Boccaccio’s Autograph of the Decameron 27
8. 2. Reading Boccaccio’s Paratexts: Dedications as Thresholds between Worlds 48
9. Part Two: Social Contexts: Friendship
10. 3. Boccaccio on Friendship (Theory and Practice) 81
11. 4. Among Boccaccio’s Friends: A Profi le of Mainardo Cavalcanti 98
12. Part Three: Social Contexts: Gender, Marriage, and the Law
13. 5. Reading Like a Woman: Gendering Compassion in the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta 109
14. 6. The Economics of Conjugal Debt from Gratian’s Decretum to Decameron 2.10: Boccaccio, Canon Law, and the Loss of Interest in Sex 133
15. 7. Authority and Misogamy in Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante 164
16. 8. What Turns on Whether Women Are Human for Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan? 189
17. Part Four: Political and Authorial Contexts: On Famous Women
18. 9. On She-Wolves and Famous Women: Boccaccio, Politics, and the Neapolitan Court 219
19. 10. Christine Transforms Boccaccio: Gendered Authorship in the De mulieribus claris and the Cité des dames 246
20. 11. Reading Like a Frenchwoman: Christine de Pizan’s Treatment of Boccaccio’s Johanna I and Andrea Acciaiuoli 260
21. Part Five: Literary Contexts and Intertexts
22. 12. A Persian in a Pear Tree: Middle Eastern Analogues for Pirro/Pyrrhus 305
23. 13. Splitting Pants and Pigs: The Fabliau “Barat et Haimet” and Narrative Strategies in Decameron 8.5 and 8.6 344
24. 14. The Tragicomedy of Lament: La Celestina and the Elegiac Legacy of Boccaccio’s Fiammetta 365
25. 15. Sins, Sex, and Secrets: The Legacy of Confession from the Decameron to the Heptaméron 403
26. Index 425