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- The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism: The Matter of Italy and the World of Rome
- The Italian Romance Epic in the Age of Humanism: The Matter of Italy and the World of Rome. By JANE E. EVERSON. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xii+ 386 pp.; ill. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-816015-1.In this book Jane Everson examines the development of the genre of the chivalric or...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
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- The game: the Harvard-Yale football rivalry
- TOM BERGIN, now retired as a professor of Romance languages at Yale, is the author of scholarly but readable books on Dante and Boccaccio. He is also a translator of the Divine Comedy, Vico's New Science, and Machiavelli's The Prince. But this is not all. He is...
- Research articles 1985-04-19
- Safety questions after Egypt ferry tragedy
- CAIRO AFP — The sinking of an Egyptian ferry in the Red Sea with some 1,400 passengers on board prompted the swift announcement of an official inquiry but raised new concerns over safety standards in the developing world. The owners of the Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 said more than 300...
- Research articles 2006-02-03
- Last rescue efforts as 1,000 feared dead on Egypt ferry
- SAFAGA, Egypt AFP — Rescuers were making a last-ditch effort to save more passengers from an Egyptian ferry that sank in the Red Sea, leaving up to 1,000 people feared drowned in one of the worst maritime disasters in years. Fewer than 400 of the 1,400 people on board...
- Research articles 2006-02-05
- Captain refused to help sinking Red Sea ferry
- CAIRO AFP — The captain of a Red Sea ferry has admitted he steered clear of a doomed ship that sank between Saudi Arabia and Egypt with the loss of about 1,000 lives to avoid a "second catastrophe." "I took the decision not to turn around to protect the...
- Research articles 2006-02-07
- British experts to probe doomed Egyptian ferry's black box
- LONDON AFP — British experts are to analyze the "black box" of the Egyptian ferry Al-Salam Boccaccio 98, which sank earlier this month killing more than 1,000, they announced. But they said it was too early to tell how long it would take to find any clues from the...
- Research articles 2006-02-21
- Egypt asks Interpol to arrest sunken ferry owner
- CAIRO AFP — Egypt issued an arrest warrant which it transferred to Interpol against a businessman who fled to London after one of his ferries sank in the Red Sea, killing more than 1,000 people. Prosecutor Maher Abdel Wahed is seeking the arrest of Mamduh Ismail and his son...
- Research articles 2006-05-24
- Outrage over 2006 Egypt ferry disaster acquittals
- CAIRO AFP — Scuffles erupted at an Egyptian court on Sunday when five of six defendants were cleared of blame for a 2006 ferry sinking in which more than 1,000 people died, Egypt's worst maritime disaster. Hysterical relatives voiced anger as only Salaheddin Gomaa, captain of another ferry, the...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of The Decameron from Giotto to Pasolini
- Jill M. Ricketts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x + 214 pp. $60. ISBN: 0-521-49600-4. Even a publishing house as prestigious as Cambridge University Press has sometimes made mistakes. Their Short History of Italy, recycled in 1990 from a 1963 update of a World War II original, appeared in...
- Research articles 1998-12-22
- Books received
- EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Aretino, Pietro. Cortigiana. Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation 38. Ed. Raymond B. Waddington. Trans. Leonard G. Sbrocchi. Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, Inc., 2003. 156 pp. append. illus. bibl. n.p. ISBN: 1-895537-70-3. Boccaccio, Giovanni. Famous Women. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 1. Ed. and trans. Virginia Brown....
- Research articles 2004-03-22
- Re-Writing Lucretia: Christine de Pizan's Response to Boccaccio's "De Mulieribus Claris"
- In writing Le Livre de la Cit� des Dames (1404-1407), Christine de Pizan does not present herself to the reader as an auctor, but rather as a compilator.1 Given that the medieval definition of mventio relies largely on an author's reworking of previously written material, one might legitimately wonder whether...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
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