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

• Autore: Olson Kristina
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 858/.109
• Soggetto topico: Courtesy in literature; Chivalry in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Florence (Italy) History To 1421
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• 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. 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Courtesy lost
• ISBN: 1-4426-6718-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460345503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Toronto Italian studies.