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Entries: Criticism - "Petrarch and Boccaccio---Italian writers of the fourteenth century---produced critical works that belong in part to the medieval period and in part to the Renaissance, which they helped to usher in. Boccaccio's defense of poetry in Books 14 and 15 of his Genealogia Decorum Gentilium is particularly important to students of later criticism." Framework-Story - "Perhaps the best known examples are found in the Book of Job, the Arabian Nights, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales." "In The Decameron, the tellers of the tales assemble and talk, and there is no plot framework." Novel - "The term novel is an English counterpart of the Italian novella, a short, compact, broadly realistic tale popular in the medieval period and best represented by those in the Decameron." "These novelle (or novellas) were stories of scandalous love, chivalry, mythology, and morals---of the type best known to modern English nreaders through the stories of Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 13488)." Novella - "The term is particularly applied to the early tales of Italian and French writers---such as the Decameron of Boccaccio..." Ottava rima - "Boccaccio is credited with originating the stanza..." Pastoral Romance - "...the form was reborn in the Renaissance with Boccaccio's Ameto (1342)." Pornography - "There have been pornographic elements in the literatures of every age and every language---for example, [...], or Boccaccio's Decameron..." Short Story - "In the middle of the fourteenth century, Boccaccio assembled the hundred tales in The Decameron."