- Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
- Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
- Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).
SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>
Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Giovanni Boccaccio.
| DATABASE |
SEARCH
TERMS |
RESULTS |
| Academic Search Premier | boccaccio Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text", and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals". |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Arts & Sciences Collections I & II | boccaccio JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections I & II, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details). |
Provides a large number of revelant documents. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | boccaccio Perform the default search. |
Provides a primary encyclopedia article and several related articles. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | boccaccio Perform the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text". |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Literature Resource Center | boccaccio Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, web links, and journal articles. |
Provides a large number of quality documents. |
| MagillOnLiterature | boccaccio Perform the default search. |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Research Library Complete | boccaccio Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library". Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and"Scholarly journals". |
Provides a number of quality items. |
| Scribner's | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on both links. Boccaccio,
Giovanni |
Provides an essay about the author and his works, along with a bibliography. |
| SIRS Renaissance | boccaccio Perform the "Quick Search".
|
Provides a small number of quality items. |
| Story Finder | boccaccio Perform the default search. |
Provides full-text of many stories, poems, and essays written by Boccaccio. |
| Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Boccaccio, Giovanni link. |
Provides a small number of quality items. |
SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>
- The following bibliography
is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
- Circulating books
not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary
loan.
- eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.
Diana's hunt =
Caccia di Diana : Boccaccio's first fiction
Location: eBook
Adventures in
speech: rhetoric and narration in Boccaccio's Decameron
Location: eBook
The song of Troilus:
lyric authority in the medieval book
Location: eBook
The Decameron
and the Canterbury tales : new essays on an old question
PR1874 .D43 2000
Location: TROY, AL
Critical perspectives
on the Decameron
PQ4287.C7
Location: TROY, AL
Chaucer's Italian
tradition
PR1912 .A3 G56 2002
Location: TROY, AL
The All's well
story from Boccaccio to Shakespeare
PR2801.C6
Location: Dothan
Chaucer and the
early writings of Boccaccio
PR1912.B6 W3 1985
Location: TROY, AL
Chaucer and Boccaccio
: antiquity and modernity
PR1912 .B6 E39 2002
Location: Montgomery
Boccaccio on poetry;
being the preface and the fourteenth and fifteenth books of Boccaccio's
Genealogia deorum gentilium in an English version with introductory essay
and commentary
PQ4274.G6 E5 1956
Location: TROY, AL
The indebtedness
of Chaucer's works to the Italian works of Boccaccio; a review and summary
PR1912.B6 C8 1965
Location: TROY, AL
The comic spirit,
Boccaccio to Thomas Mann: Giovanni Boccaccio, Charles Dickens, Henry Fielding,
Israel Zangwill, Thomas Mann
PN1929.C4 S3
Location: TROY, AL
Five masters;
a study in the mutations of the novel
PN 3451 K7 1968
Location: TROY, AL
The life of Giovanni
Boccaccio
PQ4277.C5 1969
Location: TROY, AL
The writer as
liar : narrative technique in the Decameron
PQ4290.A4
Location: TROY, AL
Critical perspectives
on the Decameron
PQ4287.C7 1977
Location: TROY, AL
Boccaccio
PQ4286.B4 1981
Location: Dothan
Boccaccio's "novelle"
in the theater of Lope de Vega
PQ6490.B6 D36X 1983
Location: TROY, AL
Concerning famous
women
PQ4274.D5 E5 1963
Location: TROY, AL
The fates of illustrious
men
PQ4274.D2 E5 1965
Location: TROY, AL
The Decameron;
its sources and analogues
PQ4287.L5 1972
Location: TROY, AL
Narrative intellection
in the Decameron
PQ4287.D4
Location: Dothan
Boccaccio's two
Venuses
PQ4293.L72 H6
Location: Dothan
The Decameron
: a new translation : 21 novelle, contemporary reactions, modern criticism
PQ4272.E5 A357 1977
Location: Dothan
SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
- Decameron Web
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Boccaccio: The Decameron – Introduction
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/boccacio2.html
- The Geoffrey
Chaucer Page: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/boccaccio
- The Giovanni
Boccaccio Page
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/boccacci.htm
- The Johns
Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory& Criticism : Giovanni Boccaccio
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/giovanni_boccaccio.html
- Boccaccio,
Giovanni, 1313-1375 . The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of
Love
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BocMost.html
- The Decameron
http://www.nmsu.edu/~honors/decameron.html
- Boccaccio
Theatre Project
http://accad.osu.edu/research/research_Boccachio.htm
