Courtesy Lost : : Dante, Boccaccio, and the Literature of History / / Kristina Marie Olson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package 2014-2016
• VerfasserIn: Olson, Kristina Marie ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442667181; 9783110490930; 9783110667691; 9783110606812; 9783110658781
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442667181
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kristina Marie Olson.

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.