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CONTENTS
Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Introduction 1
1 Imitation of the Main Action 38
Two similes -- Speciem refert...-- Allusive narrative and
learned similes -- Rivals and exiles: Thebaid 1-4 and Teseida3-6
2 The Alternate Ending 97
The expansion of the games: Thebaid 6 and Teseida 6-11 -- The
expansion of the catalog: Teseida 6
3 Boccaccio's Model of Epic Narrative 138
The metrum heroicum -- Cum fictis: Boccaccios gods -- Vera:
Theban history in the Teseida -- Epic narrative and the education
of princes
4 Imitation of the Thebaid in the Knight's Tale 192
From "romance" to epic tradition -- Open imitation of the
Thebaid -- Theban genealogy in the Knight's Tale -- Love and
history
Appendixes 225
"In principlo uniuscuiusque actoris" -- A late medieval accessus
to the Thebaid from the library of Pietro da Montagnana -- Boc-
caccio's glosses on Thebaid 7.666-687
Indexes 255

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Publication Information: Book Title: Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's Teseida. Contributors: David Anderson - author. Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press. Place of Publication: Philadelphia. Publication Year: 1988. Page Number: v.
    
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