""Contents ""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chronology of Boccaccio�s Life and Works - Victoria Kirkham""; ""Introduction: A Man of Many Turns - Janet Levarie Smarr""; ""Part I. The Vernacular Master ""; ""1. Also Known as “Prencipe Galeotto� (Decameron) - Ronald L. Martinez""; ""2. The Textual History of the Decameron - Brian Richardson""; ""Part II. The Autodidact ""; ""3. Moments of Latin Poetry (Carmina) - Giuseppe Velli""; ""4. A Fable of the World�s Creation and Phaeton�s Fall (Allegoriamitologica) - Steven M. Grossvogel""
""5. A Portrait of a Young Humanist (Epistolae 1�4) - Jason Houston""""Part III. Classical Romances ""; ""6. Love-Struck in Naples (Filostrato) - David Wallace""; ""7. A Lovers� Tale and Auspicious Beginning (Filocolo) - Elissa Weaver""; ""8. The Girl outside the Window (Teseida delle nozze d�Emilia) - Michael Sherberg""; ""Part IV. Allegorical Terza Rima ""; ""9. The Game of Love (Caccia di Diana) - Arielle Saiber""; ""10. Mural Morality in Tableaux Vivants (Amorosa visione) - Jonathan Usher""; ""Part V. New Pastorals ""
""11. On the Threshold of Paradise (Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine, or Ameto) - Jane Tylus""""12. Myth and History: Toward a New Order (Ninfale fi esolano) - Susanna Barsella""; ""13. The Changing Landscape of the Self (Buccolicum carmen) - David Lummus""; ""Part VI. Woman And Women ""; ""14. An Experiment in the Healing Power of Literature (Elegia di madonna Fiammetta) - Annelise M. Brody""; ""15. Rhetoric and Invective in Love�s Labyrinth (Il Corbaccio) - Letizia Panizza""; ""16. Doing and Undoing: Boccaccio�s Feminism (De mulieribus claris) - Deanna Shemek""
""Part VII. Devotion To Dante And Petrarch """"17. A Life in Progress (De vita et moribus Francisci Petracchi de Florentia) - Giuseppe Mazzotta""; ""18. To Praise Dante, to Please Petrarch (Trattatello in laude di Dante) - Elsa Filosa""; ""19. Boccaccio�s Divided Allegiance (Esposizioni sopra la “Comedia�) - Robert Hollander""; ""Part VIII. Historian And Humanist ""; ""20. Gods, Greeks, and Poetry (Genealogia deorum gentilium) - Jon Solomon""; ""21. Boccaccio on Fortune (De casibus virorum illustrium) - Simone Marchesi""
""22. Vernacularization in Context (Volgarizzamenti of Livy, Valerius Maximus, and Ovid) - Alison Cornish""""Part IX Geographical Explorations ""; ""23. Boccaccio�s Humanistic Ethnography (De Canaria) - James K. Coleman""; ""24. Between Text and Territory (De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus et de diversis nominibus maris) - Theodore J. Cachey Jr.""; ""Part X. Miscellanies: Lyrics, Letters, Notebooks ""; ""25. Pathways through the Lyric Forest (Rime) - Roberto Fedi""; ""26. Personality and Conflict (Epistole, Lettere) - Todd Boli""