Boccaccio's Last Fiction, "Il Corbaccio"

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 86 pages
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Contents

Il Corbaccio
45
Texts in the Corbaccio Reflecting Passages
59
The Proem of the Corbaccio Sources
72
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Robert Hollander is the author of a dozen monographs, editions, and translations and some six dozen articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and other writers. A member of Princeton's Department of Romance Languages and the former chairman of its Department of Comparative Literature, he has received the Gold Medal of the city of Florence in recognition of his Dante scholarship.

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