Kristina Marie Olson

Courtesy Lost

Dante, Boccaccio, and the Literature of History

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Produktbeschreibung

In Courtesy Lost, Kristina M. Olson analyses the literary impact of the social, political, and economic transformations of the fourteenth century through an exploration of Dante’s literary and political influence on Boccaccio. 

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781442629264
• ISBN-10: 1442629266
• Artikelnr.: 44158479

Autorenporträt

Kristina M. Olson is an assistant professor of Italian in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
“Fateci dipingere la Cortesia”: Historicizing Cortesia
Chapter One
Boccaccio’s History of Cortesia: The Incivility and Greed of Elite Families
1. Cortesia and the Florentine Elite from the Early Commune to the Age of
Dante
2. The Dantean cornice of Inf. 16 and “cortesia” lost:
Decameron 1.8, 6.9 and Esposizioni 16
3. The Greed of the Genoese (but not Florentine) Elite: Decameron 1.8,
Guiglielmo Borsiere, and Ermino Grimaldi
4. The Incivility of Cortesia:  Decameron 6.9, Betto Brunelleschi and Guido
Cavalcanti
Chapter Two
The Politics of Cortesia: Historicizing the Elite and the gente nuova
5. Florentine Politics and Economics from Dante to Boccaccio:
The Older Elite Families and the gente nuova
6. From Dantean Prophecy to Boccaccian Enactment: Florence from 1300-1302
7. Figuring Florentine Conflict: Corso Donati (cortesia) versus Vieri de’
Cerchi (avarizia)
8. The Elite and the popolo: The Case of Cisti and Geri Spini
9. The Arno Runs Red:  Narrating Florentine Violence
Chapter Three
The Ethical (and Dantean) Framework of the Decameron:
The Avarice of Clerics and Merchants
10. Cangrande della Scala: Dante’s Generous Host Experiences an Unusual, and
Momentary, Affliction of Avarice
11. Pope Boniface VIII: Figuring Avarice at the Beginning and End of the
Decameron
12. A Tempered “epopea dei mercatanti”: Musciatto Franzesi and the Avarice of
the Merchant Class
13. The Dantean cornice of Avarice: Esposizioni 1 and Decameron 10.3
14. From Finance to Fowling: The Case of the Gianfigliazzi Family
Chapter Four
Constructing a Future for Cortesia in the Past:
Virility, Nobility, and the History of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines
15. The Familial Court of Cortesia: The Civil Acts of the Malaspina Family
16. Cortesia Was Chaste: The Virility of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines
17. Virility as Nobility: Cortesia in Romagna
Bibliography