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ENGLISH WORKS ON BOCCACCIO

(_a_) BIOGRAPHY

Creighton, M.

In _The Academy_, vol. i (London, 1875), p. 570. A review of
CORAZZINI: _Le Lettere edite e inedite_.

Dubois, H.

Remarks on the Life and Writings of Boccaccio (London, 1804).

Hewlett, Maurice.

Giovanni Boccaccio as Man and Author, in _The Academy_, vol. xlvi
(1894), pp. 469-70.

Hutton, Edward.

Giovanni Boccaccio. Introduction to _The Decameron_ in _The Tudor
Translations_ (London, 1909).

Hutton, Edward.

Country Walks about Florence (London, 1908).

Deals with the Casa di Boccaccio, Poggio Gherardo, and Villa
Palmieri.

Landor, W. S.

The Pentameron, or Interviews of Messer Giovanni Boccaccio and
Messer Francesco Petrarca, etc. etc. (London). Cf. also _The
Quarterly Review_, vol. lxiv (1839), pp. 396-406.

Owen, J.

The Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance (London, 1893), pp. 128-47.

Preston, H. W., and Dodge, L.

Studies in the Correspondence of Petrarch, in _The Atlantic
Monthly_ (Boston, U.S.A.), vol. lxxii (1893), pp. 89, 284, and 395.

Robinson, J. H., and Rolfe, H. W.

Petrarch, the First of Modern Scholars, etc. (New York and London,
Putnams, 1898).

A selection from his correspondence with Boccaccio and others.

Ross, Janet.

A Stroll in Boccaccio's Country, in _National Review_, May, 1894,
pp. 364-71.

Deals with the country about Fiesole and Settignano, where
Boccaccio spent his earliest childhood.

Symonds, J. A.

Giovanni Boccaccio as Man and Author (London, 1895).

This was, till the publication of the present work, the fullest
account of Boccaccio in English; but it is untrustworthy and
altogether unworthy of the author.

Wilkins, E. H.

Calmeta, in _Modern Language Notes_, vol. xxi, no. 7.

Mr. Wilkins tries to identify Calmeta with Andalò di Negro. See
_supra_, p. 20.

(_b_) WORKS

Anon.

The Decameron of Boccaccio, in _The Edinburgh Review_ (1893).

Anon.

Novels of the Italian Renaissance, in _The Edinburgh Review_ (1897).

Anon.

Boccaccio as a Quarry, in _The Quarterly Review_, (1898), p. 188.

Collier, J. P.

The History of Patient Grisel: two early tracts in black-letter,
with introd. and notes. _Publications of the Percy Society_, vol.
iii (London, 1842).

Cotte, C.

An Old English Version of the Decameron, in _The Athenæum_ (1884),
no. 2954.

Cunliffe, J. W.

Gismond of Salern. _Publications of the Modern Language Association
of America_, vol. xxi (1906), part 2.

This deals with the origins of Decameron, iv, 1.

Dibdin, T. F.

The Bibliographical Decameron (London, 1817).

Deals with editions of the _Decameron_, the _Fiammetta_, and the
_Ameto_.

Einstein, Lewis.

The Italian Renaissance in England (New York, 1902).

Deals with the influence of Boccaccio on English Renaissance
Literature.

Garnett, R.

A History of Italian Literature (London, 1898).

Cap. vii deals with Boccaccio.

Kuhns, O.

Dante and the English Poets from Chaucer to Tennyson (New York,
1904).

The author speaks also of Boccaccio.

MacMechan, M.

The Relation of Hans Sachs to the Decameron (Halifax, 1889).

Melhuish, W. F.

Boccaccio's "Genealogy of the Gods," in _The Bookworm_, (1890), pp.
125-8.

Neilson, A. W.

The Origins and Sources of the Court of Love, in _Harvard Studies
and Notes in Philology and Literature_, vol. vi (1899).

Neilson, A. W.

The Purgatory of Cruel Beauties: a Note on Decameron, v, 8, in
_Romania_, xxix, p. 85 _et seq._ (1900).

Scott, F. N.

Boccaccio's "De Genealogia Deorum" and Sidney's _Apologie_, in
_Modern Language Notes_, vi (1891), part iv.

Spingarn, J. E.

A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance (New York, 1899).

Stillmann, W.

The Decameron and its Villas, in _The Nineteenth Century_, August,
1899.

Symonds, J. A.

The Renaissance in Italy, vol. iv (Italian Literature), (London,
1881).

Toynbee, Paget.

Benvenuto da Imola and the _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_, in _Romania_,
vol. xxix (1900), No. 115.

Toynbee, Paget.

The Bibliography of Boccaccio's _Genealogia Deorum_, in _Athenæum_,
1899, No. 3733.

Wagner, C. P.

The Sources of El Cavallero Cifar, in _Revue Hispanique_, vol. x
(1903), Nos. 33-4, p. 4 _et seq._

Wiltshire, W. H.

The master of the subjects in the _Bocace_ of 1476, in _Catalogue
of Early Prints in the Brit. Mus._, vol. ii, p. 113 _et seq._
(London, 1883).

Woodbridge, E.

Boccaccio's Defence of Poetry as contained in Lib. XIV of the _De
Genealogia Deorum_, in _Pub. of the Mod. Lang. Assoc. of America_,
vol. xiii (1900), part 3.

(_c_) BOCCACCIO AND DANTE

Cook, A. S.

The Opening of Boccaccio's Life of Dante, in _Modern Language
Notes_, vol. xvii (1902), pp. 276-9.

Dinsmore, C. A.

Aids to the Study of Dante (Boston, 1903). Cap. ii speaks of
Boccaccio's life of Dante.

Moore, E.

Dante and his Early Biographers (London, 1890). Cap. ii deals with
the _Life_ and lives attributed to Boccaccio, pp. 4-5.

Smith, T. R.

The Earliest Lives of Dante, translated from the Italian of
Giovanni Boccaccio and Leonardo Bruni Aretino (New York, 1901).

Toynbee, P.

Boccaccio's Commentary on the _Divina Commedia_, in _Mod. Lang.
Rev._ (Cambridge, 1907), vol. ii, p. 97 _et seq._

Wicksteed, P. H.

The Early Lives of Dante (London, 1907).

Witte, K.

The Two Versions of Boccaccio's _Life of Dante_, in _Essays on
Dante_, etc., p. 262 _et seq._ (London, 1898).

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