Publications

Books

Diana's Hunt. La Caccia di Diana. Boccaccio's First Fiction. Pp. 255. With Introduction (pp. 3-95), Commentary, and Glossaries, ed. and trans. (with Anthony K. Cassell). Middle Ages Series. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, 255 pp.

Reviewed:

Il Messaggero, 16 Sept., 1991.

Lettere Italiane 43 (1991): 480-81.

Parergon 9.2 (1991):144-47.

Journal of Medieval History 17.3 (1991): 277.

Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-92): 423.

Medium Aevum, 61.2 (1992): 350-51.

Italica 71.1 (Spr., 1994): 121-23.

Le Moyen Age 102.2 (1996): 367-69.

Reprinted: Permission granted for reprinting of Introduction, pp. 3-95, to Gale Research, Inc., of Detroit, Michigan, 1995.

The Sign of Reason in Boccaccio's Fiction. Pp. 283. Biblioteca di Lettere Italiane. Studi e Testi, no. 43. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1993.

Reviewed:

Speculum, 70.3 (July, 1995): 641-43.

Studi sul Boccaccio 23 (1995): 284-87.

MLN 111.1 (Jan., 1996): 171-80.

Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Winner of the MLA Scaglione Prize for a Manuscript in Italian Studies.

Reviewed:

Il Sole-24 Ore, July 15, 2001.

Choice, Dec., 2001

Renaissance Quarterly 55.4 (2002): 1380-82.

Italica 80.1 (2003): 91-92.

Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana. Ser. IX. 106.2 (2002): 588-89.

Laura Battiferra and her Literary Circle: An Anthology. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe." Chicago: University of Chicago Press , 2006.

Monograph

"L'immagine del Boccaccio nella memoria tardo-gotica e rinascimentale." Essay with catalogue of Boccaccio's Renaissance portraits for a three-volume publication by an international team of scholars, Boccaccio visualizzato: Narrare per parole e per immagini fra Medioevo e Rinascimento, ed. Vittore Branca. 3 vols. Turin: Einaudi, 1999, 1: 85-144.

Works Edited

Boccaccio 1990. The Poet and his Renaissance Reception (with Kevin Brownlee). For a special double issue of Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-92): 166-397. Selected papers from the conference "Boccaccio 1990," Univ. of Pennsylvania, Oct., 1990.

Pamela Benson and Victoria Kirkham, co-editors. Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy. Proceedings of the conference "Strong Voices, Weak History: Medieval and Renassance Women in their Literary Canons. England, France, Italy." Univ. of Pennsylvania, March, 2000. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

In progress:

Decameron Day II. Readings Sponsored by the American Boccaccio Association. Essays by ten scholars on the ten tales of the second Day of the Decameron, from readings that I arranged at national conferences during 1990-1993, for the Lectura Boccaccii series, an ABA project to sponsor and publish readings of all the tales in the Decameron in ten volumes. The first volume has been accepted by the University of Toronto Press ; vol. 2 is pending.

The Panoptical Petrarch, ed. Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi.  Under contract, Univ. of Chicago Press.

Published Lecture

Dante, the Book Glutton, or, Food for Thought from Italian Poets. Invited talk for the Bernardo Lecture Series, State University of New York at Binghamton, October, 2002. Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004.

Articles

"Reckoning with Boccaccio's Questioni d'amore," MLN 89.4 (1974): 47-59.

Reviewed:

Studi sul Boccaccio 13 (1981-82): 405-406.

"Amore e virtù: Two Salvers Depicting Boccaccio's Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine in the Metropolitan Museum" (with Paul F. Watson), Metropolitan Museum Journal 10 (1975): 35-50.

Reviewed:

Studi sul Boccaccio 13 (1981-82): 406.

"Numerology and Allegory in Boccaccio's Caccia di Diana," Traditio 34 (1978): 303-29.

Reviewed:

Studi sul Boccaccio 13 (1981-82): 406-407.

"Love's Labors Rewarded and Paradise Lost (Decameron III,10)," The Romanic Review 72.1 (Jan., 1981): 79-93.

"'Chiuso parlare' in Boccaccio's Teseida." In Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. Studies in the Italian Trecento in Honor of Charles S. Singleton, edited by Aldo S. Bernardo and Anthony L. Pellegrini, 305-51. Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1983.

"Painters at Play on the Judgment Day (Decameron VIII, 9)," Studi sul Boccaccio 14 (1983-84): 256-77.

"An Allegorically Tempered Decameron," Italica 82.1 (Spr., 1985): 1-23.

"Boccaccio's Dedication to Women in Love." In Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, edited by Andrew Morrogh, Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi, Piero Morselli, Eve Borsook, 1: 333-43. 2 vols. Florence: Giunti Barbéra, 1985.

"Savonarola and Castiglione at Philadelphia's Rosenbach," Lettere Italiane 38.4 (1986): 514-24.

"A Preliminary List of Boccaccio Portraits from the 14th to the Mid-16th Centuries," in Vittore Branca, Paul F. Watson, and Victoria Kirkham, "Boccaccio visualizzato I," Studi sul Boccaccio 15 (1985-86): 167-88.

"The Word, The Flesh, and the Decameron," Romance Philology 41.2 (Nov., 1987): 127-49.

Reprinted:

Short Story Criticism, ed. Dave Segal. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1993.

"Reflections on the 'Arabic' World: Boccaccio's Ninth Stories" (with María Rosa Menocal), Stanford Italian Review 7.1-2 (1987): 95-110.

"First Addenda and Corrigenda to A Preliminary List of Boccaccio Portraits," in Vittore Branca, Susy Marcon, Paul F. Watson, Victoria Kirkham, "Boccaccio visualizzato II," Studi sul Boccaccio 16 (1987): 275-83.

"Renaissance Portraits of Boccaccio: A Look into the Kaleidoscope," Studi sul Boccaccio 16 (1987): 284-305.

"I quindici gradi del regno di Catone." In Letteratura italiana e arti figurative. Atti del XII Convegno dell'Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana. Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, 6-10 maggio, 1985, edited by Antonio Franceschetti, 229-36. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1988.

"Eleven is for Evil: Measured Trespass in Dante's Commedia," Allegorica 10 (1989): 27-50.

"Quanto in femmina foco d'amor dura!" Letture Classensi 18 (1989): 235-52.

Reviewed:

Maria Corti, "Il dantismo americano: tra poeti e critici," La rivista dei libri, Dec., 1991.

"A Canon of Women in Dante's Commedia," Annali d'Italianistica 7 (1989): 16-41.

"The Last Tale in the Decameron," Mediaevalia 12 (1992 for 1989): 205-23.

"The Classic Bond of Friendship in Boccaccio's Tito and Gisippo (Decameron X,8)," inThe Classics in the Middle Ages. Papers of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, edited by Aldo S. Bernardo and Saul Levin, 223-35. Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 69, 1990.

"The Parallel Lives of Dante and Virgil," Dante Studies 110 (1992): 233-53.

"Purgatorio 28." In Dante's Divine Comedy. Introductory Readings II: Purgatorio, ed. Tibor Wlassics. Special issue of Lectura Dantis 12, supplement (Spr., 1993): 411-32.

"John Badmouth: Fortunes of the Poet's Image." In Boccaccio 1990. The Poet and his Renaissance Reception, ed. Kevin Brownlee and Victoria Kirkham, Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-92): 355-76.

"The Word, the Flesh, and the Decameron," reprinted from Romance Philology 41 (1987). In Short Story Criticism, ed. Dave Segal. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1993.

"Morale," in Lessico critico decameroniano, edited by Renzo Bragantini and Pier Massimo Forni, 249-68. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri Editore, 1995.

"Dante's Polysynchrony: A Perfectly Timed Entry into Eden," Filologia e Critica. Special issue, "To Charles S. Singleton, In Memoriam," 20.2-3 (May-Dec., 1995): 329-52.

"The Autograph of Laura Battiferra's Canzoniere," Lettere italiane, 1996, no. 2, 252-53.

"Breve storia del chianti <<Boccaccio>>," in Letteratura e industria. Atti del XV Convegno dell'Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e di Letteratura Italiana. Torino, 14-18 maggio, 1994, edited by Giorgio Barberi-Squarotti and Carlo Ossola, 1217-26. Florence: Olschki, 1997.

"Laura Battiferra's 'First Book' of Poetry: A Renaissance Holograph Comes out of Hiding," Rinascimento 35 (1996): 351-91.

"A Pedigree for Courtesy, or, How Dante's Purser Cured a Miser (Decameron I,8)," Studi sul Boccaccio 25 (1997): 213-38.

"Decoration and Iconography of Lydgate's Fall of Princes (De casibus virorum illustrium) at the Philadelphia Rosenbach," Studi sul Boccaccio 25 (1997): 297-310.

"Iohannes de Boccaccio: La firma dell'autore," in Atti del Convegno "Gli Zibaldoni di Boccaccio: memoria, scrittura, riscrittura." Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 1998, pp. 455-68.

"Dante's Phantom, Petrarch's Specter: Bronzino's Portrait of Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati," in "Visibile parlare: Images of Dante in the Renaissance," edited by Deborah Parker. A special issue of Lectura Dantis, (Spr.-Fall, 1998): 63-139.

"The Fall of Princes (De casibus virorum illustrium), libera traduzione inglese in versi di John Lydgate. Filadelfia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Ms. 439/16." In Boccaccio visualizzato. Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1999, 3: 283-86.

"'BV': Boccaccio visualizzato (and Branca, Vittore, of course)." Italian Quarterly 37.143-46 (Fall, 2000): 13-14. Special Issue on Vittore Branca, edited by Laura Sanguineti White.

"Early Portraits of Boccaccio. A Doorway to the Decameron," in Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron, ed. James McGregor. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000, 149-63.

"Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati benefattrice dei Gesuiti fiorentini," in Committenza artistica femminile, edited by Sara F. Matthews Grieco and Gabriella Zarri, 331-54. Quaderni storici, 104.2 (2000).

"Cosimo and Eleonora in Shepherdland: A Lost Eclogue by Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati" (essay with an edition and translation of the eclogue), in The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, edited by Konrad Eisenbichler, 149-75. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2001.

"Poetic Ideals of Love and Beauty," in Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's "Gineva de' Benci" and Renaissance Portraits of Women," edited by David Alan Brown, 48-60. Washington and Princeton: National Gallery of Art and Princeton University Press, 2001.

"Creative Partners: The Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati." Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002): 498-558.

"La poetessa al presepio: Una meditazione inedita di Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati," Edition and literary analysis of a long prose prayer inspired by the Spiritual Exercises of Loyola (Macerata, Biblioteca Comunale Mozzi-Borgetti, cod. 137). Filologia e critica 27.2 (2002): 258-76.

"Il canonista e la sua dama: Iconografia della Fiammetta, in Autori e lettori di Boccaccio. Atti del Convegno internazionale di Certaldo (20-22 settembre 2001), edited by Michelangelo Picone, 377-86. Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 2002.

"The Tale of Guiglielmo Borsiere (I,8)," in The Decameron First Day in Perspective. Volume One of the Lectura Boccaccii, edited by Elissa B. Weaver, 179-206. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

"Dante's Ravenna and Antonioni's Red Desert," in Dante, Cinema, and Television, edited by Amilcare Iannucci, 106-28. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

"Sappho on the Arno : The Brief Fame of Laura Battiferra," in Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers and Canons in England , France , and Italy , edited by Pamela Benson and Victoria Kirkham, 176-98. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2005.

"Benigni's Storehouse of Culture," in Beyond Life is Beautiful: Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni, edited by Grace Russo Bullaro, 152-76. Leicester: Troubador Publishing Ltd., 2005.

Victoria Kirkham and Jennifer Tonkovich, "How Petrarch Became Boccaccio: A Bronze Bust from the Morgan Library," Studi sul Boccaccio, 33 (2005): 269-98. By invitation, special commemorative issue for Vittore Branca..

"Maria a.k.a. Fiammetta: The Men Behind the Woman." In Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism, eds. Thomas Stillinger and Regina Psaki, 13-27. Studi & Testi no. 8. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d'Italianistica, 2006.

Encyclopedia Articles

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, ed. Gaetana Marrone and Paolo Puppa. New York-London: Routledge, 2005: entries on Ninfale fiesolano, Boccaccio's Latin Works, Filostrato, Filocolo, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta, Decameron; Battiferri Ammannati, Laura; Boccaccio, Giovanni.

The Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance, ed. Diana Robin. ABC-CLIO, 2005: Battiferra Ammannati, Laura.

In progress:  

The Classical Tradition, ed. Anthony Grafton, Glen Most, and Salvatore Settis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007: Giovanni Boccaccio.

In Memoriam
"Vittore Branca (Savona, 1913 - Venice, 2004): In memoriam." American Boccaccio Association Newsletter, Spr., 2005; online link through Heliotropia 2.2 (2004): http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/heliotropia/abanews.shtml. 1,237 words.

Anthony Kimber Cassell (March 31, 1941 - October 9, 2005). Modern Language Notes 121.1 (Jan., 2006): 49-52.

"In memoriam: Vittore Branca." Teodolinda Barolini, Robert Hollander, Victoria Kirkham. Forthcoming, Speculum,2006.

Review Articles
"Two New Translations: The Early Boccaccio in English Dress," Italica 70.1 (Spr., 1993): 79-89.

Maurizio Vitale and Vittore Branca , Il capolavoro del Boccaccio e due diverse redazioni, in an online forum for Boccaccio research and interpretation, Heliotropia 2.1 (Summer, 2004): 57,430 bytes:

Reviews

André Rochon, ed. Ville et campagne dans la littérature italienne de la Renaissance: Le Paysan travesti. Paris: Univ. de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1976. In Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et de Renaissance 40 (1978): 57-61.

Robert S. Dombroski, ed. Critical Perspectives on the Decameron. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976, and

Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron. A New Translation. 21 Novelle, Contemporary Reactions, Modern Criticism. Sel., tr., and ed. Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella. New York: Norton, 1977. In Italica 57.3 (Fall, 1980): 208-210.

Thomas G. Bergin. Boccaccio. New York: Viking, 1981. In American Boccaccio Association Newsletter, Fall, 1982.

Marga Cottino-Jones. Order From Chaos. Social and Aesthetic Harmonies in Boccaccio's Decameron. Washington, D.C.: Univ. Press of America, 1982. In Italica 61.4 (Winter, 1984): 353-54.

Alfonso Paolella. Rettorica e racconto. Argomentazione e finzione nel Novellino. Naples: Liguori, 1987. Speculum 64.4 (1989): 1019-21.

David Anderson, Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation in Classical Epic. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1988. In Studi sul Boccaccio 17 (1989): 407-409.

John Guzzardo, Dante: Numerological Studies. New York: Peter Lang, 1987. In Lectura Dantis 7 (1990): 146-48.

Francesco Bruni, Boccaccio e l'invenzione della letteratura mezzana. In Speculum 68.1 (Jan., 1993): 113-16.

Ciccuto, Marcello. Figure di Petrarca. Giotto, Simone Martini, Franco Bolognese. Naples: Federico & Ardia, 1991. Speculum 69.1 (Jan., 1994): 123-24.

Giuseppe Mazzotta, The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Renaissance Quarterly 7.2 (Aut., 1994): 653-56.

Grossvogel, Stephen. Ambiguity and Allusion in Boccaccio's Filocolo. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1992. Speculum 70.2 (Apr., 1995): 376-78.

Forni, Pier Massimo. Adventures in Speech. Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's Decameron. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Renaissance Quarterly 51.2 (Sum., 1998): 613-14.

Ricketts, Jill M. Visualizing Boccaccio. Studies on Illustrations of The Decameron from Giotto to Pasolini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Renaissance Quarterly 51.4 (Win., 1998): 1352-53.

Eugenio L. Giusti. Dall'amore cortese alla comprensione. Il viaggio ideologico di Giovanni Boccaccio dalla <<Caccia di Diana>> al <<Decameron>>. Milan: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 1999. Quaderni d'Italianistica, 2001.

Grignani, Maria Antonietta, ed. Isabella Morra, Rime. Rome: Salderno Editrice, 2000; and

Mitchell, Irene Musillo, ed. Isabella Morra, Canzoniere. A Bilingual Edition. West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera Press, 1998. Quaderni d'Italianistica 22.1 (2001): 161-64.

Deborah Parker, Bronzino. Renaissance Painter as Poet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 233. Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002): 698-99.

Pedroni, Matteo, and Antonio Stäuble, eds., Il genere "Tenzone" nelle letterature romanze delle Origini. Memoria del Tempo. Collana di studi e testi medievali e rinascimentali diretta da Michelangelo Picone, 15. Ravenna: Longo, 1999. Quaderni d'Italianistica 22.1 (2001): 166-67.

Italo Pantano. "La fonte di ogni eloquenzia": Il canzoniere petrarchesco nella cultura poetica del Quattrocento ferrarese. Rome: Bulzoni, 2002. Renaissance Quarterly 57.1 (Spr, , 2004): 170-71.

Guido Casoni, Della magia d'amore, ed. Armando Maggi. Palermo: Sellerio editore, 2003. Italica, forthcoming.