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Autore |
Olson Kristina |
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Titolo |
Courtesy lost : Dante, Boccaccio, and the literature of history / / Kristina M. Olson |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-4426-6719-2 |
1-4426-6718-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Courtesy in literature |
Chivalry in literature |
Florence (Italy) History To 1421 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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