Courtesy Lost : : Dante, Boccaccio, and the Literature of History / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package 2014-2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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