La composizione del mondo colle sue cascioni.

Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Filologia Romanza dell'Università di Roma. Modena, Società Tipografica Modenese 1956, cm.12x17, pp.168, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Collezione di Testi e Manuali,43. A cura di Angelo Monteverdi.

Oxford, Oxford University Press 2000, cm.14x22, pp.257, legatura editoriale, sopraccoperta figurata a colori. Animals and wild men are everywhere in medieval culture, but their role in illuminating medieval constructions of humanity has never been properly explored. This book gathers together a large number of themes and subjects (including Bestiary, heraldry, and hunting), and examines them as part of a unified discourse about the body and its creative transformations. Human and animal are terms traditionally opposed to one another, but their relationship must always be characterized by a dynamic instability. Humans scout into the animal zone, manipulating and re-shaping animal bodies in accordance with their own social imagining–yet these forays are risky since they lead to questions about what humanity consists in, and whether it can ever be forfeited. Studies of birds, foxes, game animals, the wild man, and shape-shifting women fill out the argument of this book, which sheds new light on works by Chaucer, Gower, the Gawain-poet, and Henryson, as well as showing that many less familiar texts have rewards that an informed reading can reveal.

Mit Berücksichtigung ähnlicher Erscheinungen in anderen Literaturen. Hildesheim, Georg Olms Verlag 1977, cm.13x19, pp.98, brossura. Collana Germanistische Abhandlungen,13. Ristampa anastatica dell'ediz. Breslan, 1896.

New Jersey, Princeton University Press 1986, cm.16x24, pp.XVI,316, legatura editoriale, sopraccoperta. Testo in inglese. Prima edizione. This book is a history of a medieval literary tradition that grew out of opposition to the mendicant fraternal orders. Penn R. Szittya argues that the widespread attacks on the friars in late medieval poetry, especially in Ricardian England, drew on an established tradition that originated in the polemical theology, eschatology, and Biblical exegesis of the friars' ecclesiastical enemies--secular clergy, theologians, polemicists, archbishops, canon lawyers, monks, and rival orders.