Tales From the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

  literary life: lecturae Dantis, lv;

  library, lii ‘Neapolitan’ works, xxxv;

  return to Florence, xxxvii–viii;

  writing style, lv, lxvxiv–v

  love affair, xli

  patrons, xli, xlix

  on poets, xlvi

  on Robert the Wise, xxxiii

  on storytelling, xlvi, cxxvii

  vision of mysterious messenger, li–ii

  WORKS

  Amorosa visione, xl, lvi, lxxv, lxxvii, cxxxiii, 865

  Buccolieum carmen, xlix, liv

  Caccia di Diana, xxxv, lxxv, 845

  Comedía delle ninfe fiorentine (Ameto), xxxix–xl, xliii, xlviii, lvi, lxii, lxxii, lxxiv, lxxv

  Corbaccio, xlvii–viii, 854

  De casibus virorum illustrium, 1–li, cxxxiii, 833, 865

  De montibus, silvis…, liii

  De mulieribus claris, 1, li, liii

  Decameron, see Decameron

  Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta, xxxviii–ix, xl, lvi, lxiv, lxxii

  Epistola consolatoria a Pino de’ Rossi, xlvii, xlviii

  Esposizioni sopra la Comedía di Dante, xxxii, xlvii, lxv, 826, 836

  Filocolo, xxxv–vi, xxxviii, xliii, xlvii, lvii, lxi, lxxii, xciii, 834, 848, 853, 857, 864

  Filostrato, xxxv, lvii, lxxii, cxxxiii, 803, 825, 830, 837, 869

  Genealogia deorum gentilium, xxxiv, xlv–vi, xlvii, 1

  Ninfalefiesolano, xl, 845

  Rime, lv

  Teseida,xxxv, xliii, lvii, lxxii, lxxv, cxxxiii, 850

  Trattatello in laude di Dante, xlvii

  Zibaldone Magliabechiano, 1

  Boccaccio, Iacopo, xl, xlviii, xlix

  Boccaccio di Chellino, xxxi–ii, xxxvii, xxxix–xl, xliv, lxxxiii–iv

  Boccadoro, San Giovanni, 808

  Boccamazza, Pietro (V, 3), cxxxvii–viii, 833

  Bólgaro, Marin, 833

  Bologna, lxx, cvi, cxxv, cxxx, 833, 848, 849, 855, 856, 864, 869, 870

  Bolzano, 811

  Bonaccorri da Ginestreto (VIII, 2), 851

  Bondanella, Peter, xxiii

  Boniface VIII, Pope (I, 1 ,Vi ,2, X), 805, 833, 838, 863

  Bonomo, Giuseppe, 846

  Borsiere, Guiglielmo (I,8) cxxv, 809

  Bosco, Umberto, cixn.

  Bostichi, Bice de’, xl, xliv

  Botticelli, Sandro, lxxix

  Brabant, Mary of, 818

  Branca, Vittore, xxiv, xxvii, xxviii, xl, xliv, lxii, lxxii, xcvi, xcviii, cxx, cxxii, 818, 819, 828, 860

  Brindisi, 861

  Brittany, 864

  Brosse, Pierre de la, 818

  Bruges, 812

  Brunelleschi, Betto (VI, 9), 841

  Bruno (VIII, 3, viii, viii, ix, 3, ix, 852, 855, 857, 858

  Brutus, 823, 855

  Buffalmacco (VIII, 3, VIII, viii, ix, 3, ix, 852, 856, 857, 858

  Buffia (‘Prankland’) (VI, 10), cxlii

  Buglietto (VIII, 2), 851

  buona fortuna (good fortune), cx

  Buonconvento (IX, 4), 859

  Burgundy, cxix–xx

  business practices, cxxii–iv, cxxxv–vi

  Buttafuoco, Francesco, 814

  Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord, xciv

  Caccianimico, Niccoluccio (X, 4), 864

  Caina, xc

  Calabria, 813, 834

  Calandrino (Nozzo di Pierino) (VIII, 3, VIII, ix, 3, ix, 824, 852, 858, 859, 860

  Caltabellotta, 866

  treaty of (1302), 813

  Camerata (VII, 1, ix, lxxvii, 846, 859

  Camollia, 854

  Campi Bisenzio (V, 9), 836

  Camposanto di Pisa, 852, 855

  Can Grande della Scala (1, 808

  Candia (Heraklion), Crete, 828

  canonical hours, 805, 806, 821, 831, 843, 848

  Capece family (II, 6), 814

  Capellanus, Andreas, cv, cvi, 803, 853

  Cappadocia, 817

  Capretius (Caprezio) (VI, 10), 844, 870

  Capri, island of, 834

  Capulets, 841

  Caracciolo family (II, 6), 814

  Carisendi, Gentile de’ (X, 4), xciii, 864

  Carlyle, Jane, lxxxviin.

  carole, 845

  Casa, Giovanni della, 837

  Cassius, 823, 855

  Castelfiorentino, 837, 856

  Castellamare di Stabia (X, 6), 865

  Castile, 863

  Catalonia, 866

  Catania, 814

  Catella (III, 6), 822

  Caterina (V, 4), lxix, lxxxii–iv, 815

  Cathay (China), 864

  Catherine of Valois-Courtenay, xxxvii, 816–17, 857

  Cavalcanti, Cavalcante de’, cxxix, 842

  Cavalcanti, Guido (VI, 9), cxxix, 827, 841–2, 862

  Cavalcanti, Mainardo de’, 1, li

  Cavicciuli, Loggia de’ (IX, 8), 861

  Cefalù PC, 866

  Celtic fringe, cxlii

  Cepperello (I, 1), see Ciappelletto

  Cerchi, Vieri de’ (IX, 8), 860–61

  Cerchi family, 839

  Certaldo, xxvi, xxviii, xxxi, xxxii, xlviii, liv, 843, 852, 862

  Cesca (VI, 8), cxxviii, 841

  Cesena, 833, 856

  Cesspool, Countess of (VIII, 9), cxli, 856

  Charity, lxxv

  Charles I, King of Naples (‘Charles the Old’) (II, 6, X, 6), xciii, cvi, 813, 814, 865, 866

  Charles II, King of Naples (II, 5), 813, 866

  Charles IV (Holy Roman Emperor), liv

  Charles of Valois (‘Carlo Senzaterra’) (I, 1), 805, 861

  Chastelaine de Vergi, La, 825

  Chatillon, Lord of (VI, 10), 843

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, xxvii, xxxv, lxxiv, lxxvii

  WORKS

  Clerk’s Tale, 868–9

  Franklin’s Tale, 864

  Knight’s Tale, xxxv, 850

  Merchant’s Tale, 850

  Reeve’s Tale, cxxxvii, 860

  Rotnaunt of the Rose, lxxvii

  Shipman’s Tale, ci, 851

  Troilus and Criseyde, xxxv, 869

  chess (VII, 7), cvi, 848

  Chianciano Terme, 863

  Chiarenza, 816

  Chiarmontesi, Alessandro (IX, 1), 858

  Chichibio (VI, 4), cxxviii, 839

  Chios, island of (II, 7), xcvi, 817

  Chremes (X, 8), 867

  church, see anti-clericalism

  Ciacco (IX, 8), 860

  Ciani, Gioacchino, lii

  Ciappelletto ‘Saint’ (l, I), xxvii, cxix–xxiv, cxxx, 806, 843

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius, lxi, cxxx, 843, 865, 867

  Cignano, Niccolò da (VIII, 10), 857

  Cilicia, 835

  Cimabue (Cenni di Pepo), cxxix, 840, 870

  Cimon (V, I), lxxxvi, cxxvii, cxxxvi, 828, 831–2

  Cino da Pistoia, xxxv, lxxxv, 827

  Cinque Terre, 863

  Cipolla, Friar (VI, 10), lxxiv, cxxi, cxxix–xxx, cxlii–iii, 824, 830, 837, 843, 844, 851, 852, 853, 870

  Cisti (VI, 2), cxxviii, cxxxiv

  Ciutazza (VIII, 4), 853

  Civillari, contessa di (VIII, 9), cxli, 856

  Clarke, Kenny, cxxxiiin.

  Classe, pinewood of, near Ravenna, c, 835

  Clement IV, Pope, 814

  Cluny, Abbot of (I, 7, X, 2), 809, 863

  Codice Laurenziano, 850

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 864

  Collectiones of Paolo da Perugia, xxxiv–v

  Cologne, 809

  Colonna family, 833

  Comœdia Lydiae, 849

  comparatico, 850

  Compline, 805

  Confiteor, 843

  Conrad II, Malaspina (II, 6), 815

  Conradin (Conrad V) (X, 6), 865

  Constance, Queen, 828, 834, 866

  Constant (II, 7), xcvi

  Constantinople, 808

  contrapasso, 854

  Coppo di Borghese Domenichi (V, 9), lix, 836

  Corfu, island of, cxxxv

  Corinth (I
I, 7), 816

  Cornacchini, Niccolò (IX, 5), 859

  cornice, lviii, lxi, lxxviii

  Corniglia, 863

  Cornwall, Earl of (II, 3), 812

  Corrado degli Aleramici, 807–8

  Corsignano, 859

  Cottino-Jones, Marga, xxiv

  Council of Trent, 823, 848

  Court of Love, xxxvi

  Cressida (Filostrato), lxxii, 825, 831, 837, 869

  Cressida (VI, Introduction), 837

  Crete, island of, 828

  Crimea, 817

  Croce, Benedetto, cxxiii, cxxxix

  Crusades, cvi, cxxv, 807, 809, 810, 835, 867, 868

  Currado family (II, 6), 815

  cursus planus, lxiv

  Cyprus, island of, lxxxvi, cxxv, cxxxv, 809–10

  Damon and Pythias, 867

  danse du ventre, 816

  Dante Alighieri, lii, lxiv, lxv, lxxii, xc, 836, 841, 858, 862

  banishment from Florence, 805, 863

  B.’s lectures on, lv

  B.’s veneration of, xxv, xxxii, xli, xlvii

  death, xli, 835

  Fortune, and, cxxxiii–iv

  poetic style, xlix, 827

  on Robert the Wise, xxxiii

  WORKS

  Commedia (Divine Comedy), xxxii, xxxvii, xlii, lxxxix, cxi, cxxxiii, cxliii, 804, 807, 826, 835–6, 838, 848, 854:

  Inferno, xxxix, xlvii, lxv, lxxx, lxxxvi, lxxxix, xc, c, cxvi, cxxix, cxxxiii–iv, 808, 800, 811, 823, 827, 836, 839, 840, 842, 852, 855, 860, 861, 865;

  Purgatorio, lxxvii, c, cxxix, 814, 815, 818, 833, 835, 838, 840;

  Paradiso, 808, 825, 826, 836, 843

  Convivio, xxix, 862, 869

  Vita nuova, 831, 848

  David and Bathsheba, 861

  Decameron

  antecedents and sources, xxvi, lvii–lxi, 803

  cornice (frame), lviii, lxi, lxxviii

  explicit language, lxix–lxx, 825

  headings to stories, lxxi

  locations where stories told, lxxv–viii

  names oilieta brigata, lxxii–iii

  reply to critics of, lxiv–vi, 826

  structure of, xxvi, xlii–iii, lxxv, cxii

  style, 826

  title, lvii, 803, 826

  alternative title, cxi

  translation problems, xxxiii, cxli–iv, 825, 840, 844, 851

  vernacular narrative prose, 826

  writing of, xlvi, liv

  Prologue, xxv, xxvi, xlviii, lxi–ii, lxiii–iv, cx, cxiv

  First Day, xlii, cxxiv–vi:

  Introduction, xlii, xliii, lxvi, lxxv, cxii, cxv, cxvii;

  First Story, lxxiii, cxix–exxiv, cxxx, 843, 863;

  Second Story, cxxiv;

  Third Story, lviii, cxxiv, 867;

  Fourth Story, lxxiv, cxxiv–exxv

  Fifth Story, cviii, cxxv, 848;

  Sixth Story, cxxv;

  Seventh Story, cxxv, 807, 863;

  Eighth Story, cxxv, 819;

  Ninth Story, cxxv;

  Tenth Story, cxxv–vi, cxxviii, 827, 838, 849

  Second Day, li, lx, cxxii, cxxvi, cxxxii–vii:

  First Story, 868;

  Second Story, 846, 853;

  Third Story, cxxxiv;

  Fourth Story, 809, 861;

  Fifth Story, xxxiv, cxxxvi–vii, cxxxix, 822, 857;

  Sixth Story, cxxxvi, 814, 832, 834, 865;

  Seventh Story, 866;

  Eighth Story, lx, cxxxvi;

  Ninth Story, xciii, cviii, cxxxv, cxxxvi;

  Tenth Story, cii, cxxxvi, 849;

  Conclusion, 850

  Third Day, lxxv, lxxvi–vii, cxxvi–vii:

  Introduction, 805;

  First Story, cxxvii;

  Second Story, xc, cxxvi, 834, 854;

  Third Story, cii, cxxvi, 849;

  Fourth Story, 846, 870;

  Fifth Story, cii, cvii, 841;

  Sixth Story, cii, cvi;

  Seventh Story, cix, cxx;

  Eighth Story, 848, 868;

  Ninth Story, xciii, cxxvii;

  Tenth Story, lxix, 826;

  Conclusion, 851

  Fourth Day, lxxiv, lxxxvi, xcvi:

  Introduction, xxv, xxxv, xlvii–viii, lxxxi, lxiv, lxvi–viii, lxxxi, cxii, 838;

  First Story, lxxx–lxxxv, cxxxi, 815, 853;

  Second Story, cxlii, 839, 849, 864;

  Fourth Story, cvi, cxxxvi, 834, 848;

  Fifth Story, lxxxvi, lxxxvii–viii, 860;

  Sixth Story, 860;

  Ninth Story, lxxiv, lxxxvi, lxxxix, xc

  Fifth Day, cvili:

  First Story, lxxxvi–vi, cxxvii, cxxxvi, 828;

  Second Story, cxxvii, cxxxvi;

  Third Story, cxxxviii;

  Fourth Story, lxix, lxxxii, 815;

  Sixth Story, cxxxvi;

  Seventh Story, cii, 861;

  Eighth Story, cviii;

  Ninth Story, lix, cvii, 807;

  Tenth Story, lviii, cii, 611, 844, 847

  Sixth Day, lxxv, lxxviii, cxviii, cxxvii–viii:

  First Story, cxxvii;

  Second Story, cxxviii, cxxxiv, 863;

  Third Story, cxxviii;

  Fourth Story, cxxviii;

  Fifth Story, cxxviü-ix;

  Sixth Story, cxxix;

  Seventh Story, ci, cxxviii;

  Eighth Story, cxxviii;

  Ninth Story, cxxix, 827;

  Tenth story, lxxiv, cxxi, cxxix–cxxx, cxlii, 824, 830, 837, 851, 853, 868, 870;

  Conclusion, lxxviii, 805

  Seventh Day, lxxiv, lxxix, ci, cii, cxviii, cxxx–xxxi:

  First Story, lxvi, cxxxi, 859;

  Second Story, lviii;

  Third Story, cxx, 823, 850;

  Fourth Story, cxxxi;

  Seventh Story, cv, cvii;

  Eighth Story, cxxxi;

  Ninth Story, cxxx

  Eighth Day, cxviii:

  First Story, ci, 849;

  Second Story, xxviii, cxli, 819, 824, 870;

  Third Story, cxl, 824, 844, 855, 859, 860, 868;

  Fourth Story, 853;

  Fifth Story, 852;

  Sixth Story, cxl, 852, 855;

  Seventh Story, xlvii, 810, 811, 860, 861, 868;

  Ninth Story, cxli, 838, 868;

  Tenth Story, 813, 819

  Ninth Day, lxxiii, lxxv:

  Introduction, lxxviii;

  First Story, cix, 853;

  Second Story, cvi, 870;

  Third Story, cxl, 852, 859;

  Fifth Story, cxl, 852, 858;

  Sixth Story, cii, cxxxvii;

  Seventh Story, 861;

  Ninth Story, cxxxiv, 860

  Tenth Day, xlvi, lxxiii, cxv, cxxxii:

  First Story, cxxxiii;

  Second Story, 819;

  Third Story, cxxxii;

  Fourth Story, xxxvi, xciii, 849;

  Fifth Story, xxxvi, xciii, 858, 868;

  Sixth Story, xciii, cvi;

  Seventh Story, cvi;

  Eighth Story, xciii, cii, cvii;

  Ninth Story, lxxx, 807;

  Tenth Story, xlvi, lxxiv, cxxix, 854;

  Conclusion, cxv

  Epiloga* (Conchtsione dell’autote), xxv, xlvi, lxxi, cxii

  Decius, 849

  Dego della Ratta, 839

  Dido, lxxii, 835

  Dietaiuti, Cepperello, of Prato, 805

  Digne (X, 9), 868

  Dione, lxxiii

  Dioneo (member of the lieta brigata), lxxiii, lxxiv, lxxv, cxvii, cxxix, 805, 807, 837, 845, 850, 854, 868

  Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro, xxxv

  Directorium humanae vitae, lix

  Disciplina clericato, lviii, 848, 867

  dogana, 857

  dolce stil novo (poetic style), xxxv, lxiv, lxxii, cxiv, 827, 828, 832, 841, 862

  Dolopathos, lx

  domestic space, cxxx–xxxi

  Domus Sana, 865

  Don juan (Byron), xciv

  Donati family, 839

  Corso Donati (IX, 8), 841, 861

  d’Or
ia, Guasparrino (II, 6), 815

  Douai, 852

  Durling, Robert M, cxin.

  Earthly Paradise, lxxvi, lxxvii–viii, c, cxvi, 820, 836

  Ecce ancilla Dei, 869

  Edward de Balliol, King of Scotland, 812

  Edward II, King of England, xxviii, 812, 839

  Edward III, King of England, xli, 812, 817

  Elena (VIII, 7), 854

  Elissa (member of the lieta brigata), lxxii, lxxv, cvi, 828

  Ember weeks, 819

  Emilia (member of the lieta brigata), lxxii, lxxiii, lxxv

  Emilia (province), 807, 815

  Emilia (Teseida), 850

  England

  broader meaning of, 818

  Kings of, xxviii, 811–12, 817

  Envy, lxiv, 826

  Epicurus, 808

  Euganean hills, liv

  Euripides, 1

  Eve, li

  Evesham, battle of (1265), 865

  exempla, xxvi, lviii, lxii, 803, 848, 862

  explicit language, lxix–lxx, 825

  bawdy songs (V, Conclusion), 836

  Extreme Unction, cxx

  Fables of Bidpai (or Pilpay), lix

  fabliaux, xxvi, lviii, lxii, cvi, cxxx, cxxxvii, 803, 849, 850, 851, 853, 860

  Faenza (V, 5), 833

  Faith, lxxv, 804

  Fano (V, 5), 833

  Farinata degli Uberti (V, 9), 840, 865

  Federigo degli Alberighi (V, 9), lix, cvii–viii

  Federigo di Neri Pegolotti (VII, 1), 846

  feminism, see anti-feminism

  Ferondo (III, 8), 823–4

  Fiammetta (Elegia), xxxviii, lxxii

  Fiammetta (Filocolo), xxxvi, 864

  Fiammetta (member of the lieta brigata), lix, lxxii, lxxiv, cvi, 822, 836

  Fiesole, lxxvi, lxxvii, 846, 852–3, 859

  Figiovanni, Carlo de’, 862–3

  Figiovanni, Ruggieri de’ (X, 1), cxxxiii, 862

  Filippa (Madonna Filippa of Prato) (VI, 7), ci–ii, cxxviii, 841

  Filomena (Filostrato), 825

  Filomena (member of the lieta brigata), lxxii, lxxiv, cix, cxiii, cxvii, cxxvi, cxxviii, 825, 831

  Filostrato (member of the lieta brigata), lxxii, lxxiv, lxxv, 805, 825

  Finale Ligure, 819

  Fiordaliso, Madonna (II, 5), 813–14

  Flanders, 852

  Flora, Madonna, 814

  Florence, xxxi et passim

  B. and: birth, xxxi–ii; return to, xxxvii; views on, xxxviii–ix

  Badia (church), 852

  Baptistery of San Giovanni, 842, 855

  Biblioteca Laurenziana, lviii, 850

  Cacavincigli (VIII, 9), 856

  Camaldoli (IX, 5), 859

  cathedral, 842

  Corso degli Adimari (VI, 9) (Via Calzaiuoli), 842, 861

  coup d’état of 1361, xlviii, liii

  Dante and, 805, 809

  diplomacy in support of papacy’s return to Italy, liii

  government of, xli

  humour, cxli–ii invasion threatened, liv

  Mercato Vecchio (VIII, 9), 855

  merchant class, lvii, lxxxiii, cxxii, cxxx, cxxxii, 809, 812

  Orsammichele district (VI, 9), 842

  palio (horse race), 839