Paroimia : Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, and Italian Proverbs from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

Cover -- PAROIMIA -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Criteria for Transcription -- Notes on Quotations, Translations, and Abbreviations -- Chapter One Literary History and Theories of Paremias -- Paremiography: Literature of Paremias and Literature with Paremias -- The Classical and Middle Ages -- The Renaissance and Early Modern Period -- The Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-First Centuries -- Paremiology: Defining Paremias -- The Classical and Middle Ages -- The Renaissance and Early Modern Period -- The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- Temistocle Franceschi's Paremiology -- Variations of Paremias in Genre, Culture, and Language -- Paremiological Categorizations: Proverbs, Proverbial Phrases, and Wellerisms -- Chapter Two Vincenzo Brusantino's Le cento novelle: Paremias and Tridentine Ethics in Reinterpreting the Decameron -- Brusantino's "Translation" of Boccaccio's Decameron -- The Defining Attributes of Brusantino's Le cento novelle -- Rewriting the Decameron through Octaves and Paremias -- Le cento novelle: A Stylistic and Social Adaptation of the Decameron -- Introductory Allegories and Paremias: Brusantino's Ethical Perspective -- Celebrated Love -- Condemned Love -- Lascivious Love and Religion -- Jealousy Rebuked -- Religious Matters -- The Power of the Word -- Embedded Paremias: Brusantino's Personal Innovations and His Adaptations of Boccaccio's Paremias to the Octave -- Brusantino's Ethical Language in His Paremias -- Chapter Three John Florio's Firste Fruites and Second Frutes: Paremias and Elizabethan Teaching of the Italian Language -- Florio's Activity in England -- Teaching the Italian Language with Paremias: Florio's Innovative Approach -- Florio's Paremias in His Fruits -- The Sources of Florio's Paremias and Dialogues.

Solomon's and Yeshua Ben Sira's Paremias in Firste Fruites -- Translating Paremias -- Firste Fruites -- Second Frutes -- Paremias in Context -- Paremiac Dialogues in Firste Fruites -- Paremiac Dialogues in Second Frutes -- Contextual Comparisons with Giardino di ricreatione -- Chapter Four Pompeo Sarnelli's Posilecheata: Paremias and the Multifaceted Neapolitan Baroque -- Sarnelli's Literary Presence -- Literature in Neapolitan Dialect and Sarnelli's Fables -- The Prefatory Letter: Paremias Praising the Neapolitan Dialect -- The Introductory Banquet: Tripartite Paremias to Marvel -- The Five Fables: Paremias as Moral, Social, and Linguistic Tools -- Cunto 1: La piatà remmonerata -- Cunto 2: La vajassa fedele -- Cunto 3: La 'ngannatrice 'ngannata -- Cunto 4: La gallenella -- Cunto 5: La capo e la coda -- Conclusion -- Index of Paremias in Le cento novelle, Firste Fruites, Second Frutes, and Posilecheata -- Vincenzo Brusantino: Le cento novelle's Paremias -- Introductory Paremias for Each Novella and Final List of Paremias at the End of Each Day -- Embedded Paremias in Le cento novelle Compared with Boccaccio's Paremias -- New Paremias Introduced by Brusantino -- John Florio: A Selection of Paremias in Firste Fruites and Second Frutes Compared with Giardino di ricreatione -- Numerical Paremias -- Pompeo Sarnelli: A Selection of Posilecheata's Paremias -- Paremias at the End of the Five cunti -- Tripartite Paremias -- Paremias in Other Languages -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index of Names -- About the Book -- About the Author.

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