Boccaccio's Florence : Politics and People in His Life and Work /

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"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...

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Autor principal: Filosa, Elsa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375 > Criticism and interpretation.
Politics in literature.
Politics and government.
History in literature.
Histoire dans la litterature.
Italy > Florence.
Florence (Italie) > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1421.
Florence (Italie) > Administration > Jusqu'à 1421.
Florence (Italy) > History > To 1421.
Florence (Italy) > Politics and government > To 1421.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE Power and Politics in Boccaccio's Times
  • 1 An Apprenticeship in Politics (1341-1343)
  • From Naples to Florence: Santa Felicita in Oltrarno
  • The Bardi Conspiracy of 1340
  • "Endeavour to Make One or More Friends"
  • The Call and the Fall of the Duke of Athens
  • 2 Boccaccio and Politics (1348-1355)
  • The Plague and Its Aftermath
  • Boccaccio's Political Years
  • "Petrarch's War" and the War against the Visconti
  • Boccaccio's Last Offices and Disappearance
  • 3 The 1360 Conspiracy (1359-1361)
  • The Guelf Party and Terror of the Ammonizioni
  • The Ringleaders
  • The Dynamics of the Conspiracy
  • The Informants
  • The Death Sentence
  • The Other Conspirators
  • 4 Consequences of the Conspiracy (1361-1365)
  • The Defamatory Portraits
  • The Executed: Niccolò di Bartolo del Buono and Domenico Bandini
  • The Exiles: The Case of Luca di Feo Ugolini
  • Boccaccio's Withdrawal to Certaldo
  • PART TWO At the Intersections of Literature and Politics
  • 5 Antityrannical Motives in De mulieribus claris
  • Friendship in Time of Conspiracy
  • Florence: The Prostitutes Venus and Flora and the Seduced Hercules
  • Antityrannical Motives
  • The Stoic Suicide: Escape towards Freedom
  • 6 The Consolatoria a Pino de' Rossi: A Manifesto on Innocence
  • Who Was Pino de' Rossi?
  • Boccaccio's Letter: A Manifesto on Innocence
  • Against Judges: Milex Ludovicus Juvenalis Cardolis de Narnia
  • The Corruption of the Florentines
  • Pino de' Rossi and Friends
  • The Consolations of Giovanni Boccaccio
  • The Questionable Innocence of Pino de' Rossi
  • Appendix: Summary of Boccaccio's Consolatoria a Pino de' Rossi
  • 7 The Lives of Dante
  • The Life of Dante: First Version
  • Self-Censorship in the Second Version
  • The Deletion of Monarchia
  • A Change of Audience
  • Lapo da Castiglionchio
  • Tensions with Petrarch: On the Solitary Life
  • Boccaccio's Enduring Fidelity to Dante
  • 8 Conspirators in the Decameron
  • What's in a Name? Donati and Monna Nonna
  • Decameron VI: The Florentine Day
  • Fortune and Nature: A Philosophical Debate
  • Noble Blood versus Noble Soul: A Political Debate
  • Founding the Utopian City
  • Afterword
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1 Genealogical Tables
  • 1. Giovanni di Boccaccio da Certaldo
  • 2. Bice di Nepo de' Bostichi
  • 3. Messer Pino di Giovanni de' Rossi
  • 4. Monna Oretta Malespini (Dec. VI.1) and Messer Geri di Manetto Spini (Dec. VI.2)
  • 5. Monna Nonna de' Pulci (Dec. VI.3)
  • 6. Currado Gianfigliazzi (Dec. VI.4)
  • 7. Betto di Brunello Brunelleschi (Dec. VI.9)
  • Appendix 2 Transcriptions of Documents
  • 1. The Death Sentence
  • 2. Document stating that Luca di Feo Ugolini is in Volterra
  • 3. The inheritance to be received by Niccolò di Luca di Feo Ugolini from his mother's estate

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