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Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige, to acquire cultural capital, to instill a sense of community, or to build diplomatic alliances.

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Features an English translation of the prose compilation "Tristano Panciatichiano". This title furnishes important evidence for the study of Arthurian material in Italy.

This study explores the work of Andrea de Barberino (c. 1371-1431), the prolific but elusive Florentine medieval chivalric narrator. It argues for the attribution of two previously indeterminate chivalric romances, and against Andrea's authorship of "Rambaldo".

The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of "exempla" and didactic literature and contributed to modern narrative forms. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to comprehensive scholarship on the Italian novella. The essays range from work on the "Decameron, " the epitome of the genre, to studies of sixteenth century authors who often utilized transgressive or sexual themes in thei...

Text and facing English translation of a version of the Tristan story from north-east Italy.