Boccaccio’s Florence : : Politics and People in His Life and Work / / Elsa Filosa.
Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as a writer. Boccaccio’s Florenc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 6 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART ONE Power and Politics in Boccaccio’s Times
- 1 An Apprenticeship in Politics (1341–1343)
- 2 Boccaccio and Politics (1348–1355)
- 3 The 1360 Conspiracy (1359–1361)
- 4 Consequences of the Conspiracy (1361–1365)
- PART TWO At the Intersections of Literature and Politics
- 5 Antityrannical Motives in De mulieribus claris
- 6 The Consolatoria a Pino de’ Rossi: A Manifesto on Innocence
- 7 The Lives of Dante
- 8 Conspirators in the Decameron
- Afterword
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 Genealogical Tables
- Appendix 2 Transcriptions of Documents
- Appendix 3 The Conspirators: Prosopographical Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Names