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

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Olson, Kristina [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Toronto Italian studiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442667181
1442667184
9781442667198
1442667192

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Courtesy lostDDC classification:

858/.109 23

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PQ4293.H5 O47 2014eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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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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