LEADER 03349nam 2200613 450 001 9910462424503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-6361-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442663619 035 $a(CKB)2670000000186389 035 $a(OCoLC)785803036 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10541244 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000645403 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11383363 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000645403 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10681896 035 $a(PQKB)10840310 035 $a(CEL)443380 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00228545 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669709 035 $a(DE-B1597)479133 035 $a(OCoLC)987933904 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442663619 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669709 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256231 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000186389 100 $a20160921h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||a|| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDante's Tenzone with Forese Donati $ethe reprehension of vice /$fFabian Alfie 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Italian Studies 311 $a1-4426-4223-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Dante's Harsh New Style -- $t1 La debita correzione: The Poetics of Insult in the Duecento -- $t2 Ad personam, ad stipitem: Readings of the Sonnets -- $t3 Hellish Echoes: Reminiscences of the Correspondence in Inferno XXIX and XXX -- $t4 The Terrace of the Tenzone: Purgatorio XXIII and XXIV -- $t5 Citations and Interpretations: The Literary Memory of the Sonnets in Boccaccio and Others -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix: Manuscripts and Stemmas -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $a'And by now, mind, it's too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.' Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged and evoked the memory of his youthful put-downs.Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati examines the lasting impact of these sonnets on Dante's writings and Italian literary culture, notably in the work of Giovanni Boccaccio. Fabian Alfie expands on derision as an ethical dimension of medieval literature, both facilitating the reprehension of vice and encouraging ongoing debates about the true nature of nobility. Outlining a broad perspective on the uses of literary insult, Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati also provides an evocative glimpse of Dante's day-to-day life in the twelfth century. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies. 606 $aInvective in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInvective in literature. 676 $a851/.1 700 $aAlfie$b Fabian$0921011 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462424503321 996 $aDante's Tenzone with Forese Donati$92065734 997 $aUNINA