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Article: Stephen Kolsky. The Ghost of Boccaccio. Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy.(Joining the Conversation: Dialogues by Renaissance Women)(Book review)
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- Italica
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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Stephen Kolsky. The Ghost of Boccaccio. Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 7. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. Janet Levarie Smarr. Joining the Conversation. Dialogues by Renaissance Women. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2005.
Both these works fill important gaps in criticism on early modern Italian and French texts by and about women since they strike a thorough and admirable balance between synthesis and analysis. They help us obtain a solid grip on a rather elusive and hard to define corpus of texts whose underlying formal and thematic connections, while obvious to critics of the period, remained in need to be addressed ...