Courtesy lost : Dante, Boccaccio, and the literature of history / Kristina M. Olson.
Material type: TextSeries: Toronto Italian studiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9781442667181
- 1442667184
- 9781442667198
- 1442667192
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Influence
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Courtesy in literature
- Chivalry in literature
- Florence (Italy) -- History -- To 1421
- Chevalerie dans la littérature
- Florence (Italie) -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1421
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian
- HISTORY -- Renaissance
- Chivalry in literature
- Courtesy in literature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Italy -- Florence
- To 1421
- 858/.109 23
- PQ4293.H5 O47 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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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