03592nam 2200673 450 991046034550332120200520144314.01-4426-6718-410.3138/9781442667181(CKB)3710000000268207(EBL)3295730(SSID)ssj0001456536(PQKBManifestationID)12647781(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001456536(PQKBWorkID)11435937(PQKB)10982111(MiAaPQ)EBC4669288(CEL)448939(OCoLC)898086031(CaBNVSL)slc00235312(MiAaPQ)EBC3295730(DE-B1597)465443(OCoLC)894227785(DE-B1597)9781442667181(Au-PeEL)EBL4669288(CaPaEBR)ebr11255831(EXLCZ)99371000000026820720160916h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCourtesy lost Dante, Boccaccio, and the literature of history /Kristina M. OlsonToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2014.©20141 online resource (259 p.)Toronto Italian Studies1-4426-2926-6 1-4426-4707-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Editions and Translations -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 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. The book reveals how Boccaccio rewrote the past through the lens of the Commedia, torn between nostalgia for elite families in decline and the need to promote morality and magnanimity within the Florentine Republic.By examining the passages in Boccaccio’s Decameron, De casibus, and Esposizioni in which the author rewrites moments in Florentine and Italian history that had also appeared in Dante’s Commedia, Olson illuminates the ways in which Boccaccio expressed his deep ambivalence towards the political and social changes of his era. She illustrates this through an analysis of Dante’s and Boccaccio’s treatments of the idea of courtesy, or cortesia, in an era when the chivalry of the declining aristocracy was being supplanted by the civility of the rising merchant classes.Toronto Italian studies.Courtesy in literatureChivalry in literatureFlorence (Italy)HistoryTo 1421Electronic books.Courtesy in literature.Chivalry in literature.858/.109Olson Kristina972785MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460345503321Courtesy lost2212848UNINA