Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / ROBERT J. RODINI -- Christopher Kleinhenz's Curriculum Vitae -- Medieval romances between France and Italy. The ordonnance of the quest in Jean Froissart's Meliador / DOUGLAS KELLY -- From Le Chevalier as deus espees to the Prose Yvain / NORRIS LACY -- Christien in Italy / KEITH BUSBY -- Tracce tristaniane nella lirica dei siciliani / MICHELANGELO PICONE -- Galeotto Before the Fall / SAMUEL N. ROSENBERG -- Literary afterlives in Huon d'auverne: "the art of [Dantean] citation" / LESLIE ZARKER MORGAN -- Interpretations and reception of Dante's minor works. The narrative structure of the Vita nova / RICHARD LANSING -- Dream and vision in Dante's Vita nova / ERNESTO LIVORNI -- Re-configuring the self through suffering, violence, and death in Dante's Vita nuova and Comedy / DINO CERVIGNI -- Sixteenth-century criticism of Dante's Tenzone with forese donati: Vincenzo Borghini's "de' poeti antichi toscani" / FABIAN ALFIE -- Interpretations and reception of Dante's Commedia. Dante Equestrian / GLORIA ALLAIRE -- Quanto si convenia a tanto uccello" (Inf. 34.47): Dante's satan as winged phallus / MADISON SOWELL -- Dal tema del pellegrinaggio alle icone della musica: per una rivisitazione -- Purgatorio ii / EMILIO PASQUINI -- Philomela: The "civic" rape of the empire / MARGHERITA PAMPINELLA CROPPER -- Appunti su guglielmo maramauro, sull'auctoritas e sulla "lettura" di dante nel trecento / ZYGMUNT BARANSKI -- "Quella Dolce Terra Latina": The Dantesque landscape of Moravia's La Ciociara ("Two Women") / MARY WATT -- Studies on the Italian Middle Ages: Thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The portrayal of falconry in encyclopedic literature: the sport meets the scholar / TERESA GUALTIERI-CLARK -- "Venite a laudare": Reflections of the Marian Cult in Il Laudario di Cortona / ALAN R. PERRY -- Il vi prometto?-?ve lo intendo dimostrare: variable double object clitic clusters in the Decameron and Medieval Florentine / JANICE ASKI -- Literary imagination and mercantile pragmatism in Goro Dati's Sfera / DARIO DEL PUPPO -- Studies on the Italian Renaissance: fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Newberry Library's Italian Prayer Roll: evidence for piety and novelty / TONIA TRIGGIANO -- Kairos: the Renaissance reconstruction of the best of all possible times / GIANCARLO MAIORINO -- Reading through the text: lives of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Christine de Pizan and Pietro Aretino / DOLLY WEBER -- Walters MS W720: chapters to be observed by the singers of the Cappella Giulia (1574) / ILONA KLEIN -- Renaissance Petrarchism and Petrarchiste. Lettere di una donna incerta: private letters of Chiara Matraini / VEENA CARLSON -- Sixteenth century Petrarchiste and the reinvention of the medieval Blazon / FIORA A. BASSANESE -- Literary pastimes of a Paduan jurist: Boccaccio, Petrarca, and Marco Mantova Benavides / VICTORIA KIRKHAM -- The economics of authority: Bembo, Vellutello, and the reconstruction of the "authentic Petrarch" / H. WAYNE STOREY.