Michael Sherberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5828766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Sherberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherberg |
| SIGNATURE | SHERBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inferno monacale
On Amistà
Boccaccio's Florence
This welcome contribution to the ever-growing scholarship on the life and works of Giovanni Boccaccio centers on a period that has received less attention than it deserves: the years around 1360, when several men close to Boccaccio concocted a conspiracy to upend the ruling Guelf party in Florence. The plot itself quickly collapsed, with two of the conspirators meeting swift and brutal deaths and the others decamping to safer climes. Boccaccio hi…
Reconsidering Boccaccio
This volume collects essays that resulted from the centennial conference Boccaccio at 700, held at Binghamton University in 2013. As such, it joins a flurry of publications that recorded the conversations of that anniversary year, as scholars here and abroad focused their collective eyes on this most alluring of Italian writers. Like other volumes, this one offers up an eclectic group of essays, ranging from the minutiae of textual practice to so…
The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective
A Rhetoric of the "Decameron" . Marilyn Migiel
The Accademia Fiorentina and the Question of the Language
Founded in 1540 as the Accademia degli Umidi, the Accademia Fiorentina quickly assumed a central role in the renewed language debate in Italy. Three Florentine protagonists of the debate, Pierfrancesco Giambullari, Giovambattista Gelli, and Carlo Lenzoni, all penned treatises in defense of contemporary Florentine as a language model, in opposition to solutions advocated by others, particularly Pietro Bembo and his followers, and Giovan Giorgio Tr…
Rinaldo
Boccaccio's Last Fiction, "Il Corbaccio." . Robert Hollander
The Languages of Literature in Renaissance Italy
The Accademia Fiorentina and the Question of the Language
Founded in 1540 as the Accademia degli Umidi, the Accademia Fiorentina quickly assumed a central role in the renewed language debate in Italy. Three Florentine protagonists of the debate, Pierfrancesco Giambullari, Giovambattista Gelli, and Carlo Lenzoni, all penned treatises in defense of contemporary Florentine as a language model, in opposition to solutions advocated by others, particularly Pietro Bembo and his followers, and Giovan Giorgio Tr…
The Languages of Literature in Renaissance Italy
Boccaccio's Last Fiction, "Il Corbaccio." . Robert Hollander
Rinaldo
The Accademia Fiorentina and the Question of the Language
Founded in 1540 as the Accademia degli Umidi, the Accademia Fiorentina quickly assumed a central role in the renewed language debate in Italy. Three Florentine protagonists of the debate, Pierfrancesco Giambullari, Giovambattista Gelli, and Carlo Lenzoni, all penned treatises in defense of contemporary Florentine as a language model, in opposition to solutions advocated by others, particularly Pietro Bembo and his followers, and Giovan Giorgio Tr…
A Rhetoric of the "Decameron" . Marilyn Migiel
The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective
Reconsidering Boccaccio
This volume collects essays that resulted from the centennial conference Boccaccio at 700, held at Binghamton University in 2013. As such, it joins a flurry of publications that recorded the conversations of that anniversary year, as scholars here and abroad focused their collective eyes on this most alluring of Italian writers. Like other volumes, this one offers up an eclectic group of essays, ranging from the minutiae of textual practice to so…
On Amistà
Boccaccio's Florence
This welcome contribution to the ever-growing scholarship on the life and works of Giovanni Boccaccio centers on a period that has received less attention than it deserves: the years around 1360, when several men close to Boccaccio concocted a conspiracy to upend the ruling Guelf party in Florence. The plot itself quickly collapsed, with two of the conspirators meeting swift and brutal deaths and the others decamping to safer climes. Boccaccio hi…
Inferno monacale
Art (8 works) · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (7 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Classics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)