Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of The Decameron from Giotto to Pasolini.(Review) From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: December 22, 1998| Author: Kirkham, Victoria | COPYRIGHT 1998 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Jill M. Ricketts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x + 214 pp. $60. ISBN: 0-521-49600-4.

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