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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787001903321

Autore

Olson Kristina

Titolo

Courtesy lost : Dante, Boccaccio, and the literature of history / / Kristina M. Olson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-6719-2

1-4426-6718-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

858/.109

Soggetti

Courtesy in literature

Chivalry in literature

Florence (Italy) History To 1421

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. "Fateci dipignere la Cortesia": Historicizing cortesia -- 1 Boccaccio's History of cortesia: The Incivility and Greed of the Elite -- 2 Boccaccio's Politics of cortesia: Narrating the Elite and the gente nuova -- 3 The Ethical (and Dantean) Framework of the Decameron: The Avarice of Clerics and Merchants -- 4 Constructing a Future for cortesia in the Past: Virility, Nobility, and the History of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.

Sommario/riassunto

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.