Giambattista Bodoni
Giambattista Bodoni , 1740-1813, Italian printer b. Piedmont. He was the son of a printer and worked for a time at the press of the Vatican. Under the patronage of the duke of Parma, he produced stately quartos and folios with impressive title pages and luxurious margins. With Baskerville in England and the Didot family in France, Bodoni was a leader in originating pseudoclassical typefaces. These were distinguished from the "old style" of Caslon by emphasizing the contrast of light and heavy lines and by long, level serifs. Bodoni's most notable publications include folio editions of Horace (1791), Vergil (1793), The Divine Comedy (1795), and Homer (1808). His coldly elegant books were frankly made to be admired for typeface and layout, not to be studied or read. He was apparently indifferent to the quality of the text he printed and to editing and proofreading. William Morris considered Bodoni's mechanical perfection in typography the ultimate example of modern ugliness.
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Eugenio L. Giusti, Dall'amore cortese alla comprensione. Il viaggio ideologico di Giovanni Boccaccio dalla Caccia di Diana al Decameron.(article in Italian)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Il viaggio ideologico di Giovanni Boccaccio dalla Caccia di Diana al Decameron...anche in Filocolo IV 51, 2 (Giovanni Boccaccio, Filocolo, a c. di Antonio...Quaglio, in Tutte le opere di Giovanni Boccaccio, a c. di Vittore Branca...
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Male piety and sexuality in Boccaccio's Decameron.(Giovanni Boccaccio)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...performance in selected novelle in Giovanni Boccaccio's fourteenth-century collection...Throughout the Decameron, Boccaccio never neglects the traumas of...lovers, and husbands. But for Boccaccio's men as well, and perhaps...
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Roberta Morosini. Per Difetto Rintegrare. Una lettura del Filocolo di Giovanni Boccaccio.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Italica; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Una lettura del Filocolo di Giovanni Boccaccio. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2004...prose romance in Italian), Boccaccio's Filocolo offers rich territory...s Ambiguity and Allusion in Boccaccio's Filocolo (1992), Antonio...
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Eugenio Giusti. Dall'amore cortese alla comprensione. Il viaggio ideologico di Giovanni Boccaccio dalla Caccia di Diana al Decameron.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Italica; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...il "viaggio ideologico" di Giovanni Boccaccio dagli angusti e circoscritti...avviene durante il `viaggio' di Boccaccio il quale, piuttosto che continuare...lasciato nel suo "The widow in Giovanni Boccaccio's Works: A Negative `exemplum...
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Boccaccio's Decameron as a primary literary source for the musical movement of Ars Nova in Italy.(Giovanni Boccaccio)(Essay)
Magazine article from: Italica; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Giovanni Boccaccio's time-honored work Decameron...days that constitute the Decameron, Boccaccio depicts this new attitude regarding...Middle Ages in his Divine Comedy, Giovanni Boccaccio penned his highly celebrated Decameron...
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Boccaccio ambiguo maestro di Della Casa: "il donare cortesia" nell'episodio de "Il discreto famigliare" del Galateo.(text in Italian; Giovanni Boccaccio)
Magazine article from: Italica; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...maniere prevalgono sulle buone, Giovanni Della Casa consegna al lettore...natura. E la natura, per Boccaccio, la vera guida dei comportamenti...eremitica nella novella di Boccaccio presuppone la naturalita dello...Balducci e, in linea con Boccaccio, dissociarsi apertamente...
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The Dino De Laurentiis Company to Produce 'The Decameron,' Adapted From Giovanni Boccaccio's Literary Classic.
PR Newswire; 7/7/2003; 700+ words
; ...ANGELES, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Giovanni Boccaccio's enduring classic "The Decameron...the tale for the big screen. Boccaccio's tales have served as the...and our film, inspired by Boccaccio's classic book, will be familiar...
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A quotation from the 'Culex' in Boccaccio's 'De Casibus'.(Giovanni Boccaccio)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...of the De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, Boccaccio writes at length of the fall from fortune...The deliberate impression here is that Boccaccio, in dealing with the matter of Troy...somewhat hyperbolic in practice when Boccaccio was still waiting for direct access to...
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Giovanni Boccaccio: Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia (Teseida delle nozze de Emilia).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...This solid, literal translation of Boccaccio's Teseida fills a gap in the accessibility of Boccaccio's early works to the English reader...than, and often unrelated to, those by Boccaccio himself, and are full of unresolved lacunae...
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Paratexts and their functions in seventeenth-century English Decamerons.(Giovanni Boccaccio)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...examines the first English translation of Boccaccio's Decameron (London: Jaggard, 1620...various readerships. ********** Boccaccio's Decameron has had a notoriously chequered...and by extension, the English 'Boccaccio'--through a study of different editions...
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Giovanni Boccaccio The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is best known for the Decameron. For...considered one of the early humanists. The culture of Giovanni Boccaccio is rooted in the Middle Ages, but his conception of...
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Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–1375)
Book article from: The Renaissance
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313 – 1375) Born in Florence as the illegitimate son of Boccaccio de Chellino, a merchant, Giovanni Boccaccio felt a strong ambition to become a poet from a young...
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Boccaccio, Giovanni
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–75) Italian poet, prose writer, and scholar...c. 1338) and Il Ninfale Fiesolano ( c. 1344–45). Boccaccio was a friend of Petrarch and biographer of Dante . See also Italian...
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Boccaccio Boccaccino
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Boccaccio Boccaccino , c.1465-1525. Italian artist, b. Cremona. He probably...Child with Saints derive from Venetian models, particularly from those of Giovanni Bellini. His most impressive work is the fresco cycle of the Life of the...
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Giovanni Battista Basile
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Giovanni Battista Basile , 1575-1632, Italian writer. Basile held several important...usually referred to as Il Pentamerone because its framework is similar to Boccaccio's Decameron, recounts 50 tales told to a prince and his bride by ten...
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