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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. 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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
"Fateci dipingere la Cortesia": Historicizing Cortesia
Chapter One
Boccaccio's History of Cortesia: The Incivility and Greed of Elite Families
Cortesia and the Florentine Elite from the Early Commune to the Age of Dante
The Dantean cornice of Inf. 16 and "cortesia" lost:
Decameron 1.8, 6.9 and Esposizioni 16
The Greed of the Genoese (but not Florentine) Elite: Decameron 1.8, Guiglielmo Borsiere, and Ermino Grimaldi
The Incivility of Cortesia: Decameron 6.9, Betto Brunelleschi and Guido Cavalcanti
Chapter Two
The Politics of Cortesia: Historicizing the Elite and the gente nuova
Florentine Politics and Economics from Dante to Boccaccio:
The Older Elite Families and the gente nuova
From Dantean Prophecy to Boccaccian Enactment: Florence from 1300-1302
Figuring Florentine Conflict: Corso Donati (cortesia) versus Vieri de' Cerchi (avarizia)
The Elite and the popolo: The Case of Cisti and Geri Spini
The Arno Runs Red: Narrating Florentine Violence
Chapter Three
The Ethical (and Dantean) Framework of the Decameron:
The Avarice of Clerics and Merchants
Cangrande della Scala: Dante's Generous Host Experiences an Unusual, and Momentary, Affliction of Avarice
Pope Boniface VIII: Figuring Avarice at the Beginning and End of the Decameron
A Tempered "epopea dei mercatanti": Musciatto Franzesi and the Avarice of the Merchant Class
The Dantean cornice of Avarice: Esposizioni 1 and Decameron 10.3
From Finance to Fowling: The Case of the Gianfigliazzi Family
Chapter Four
Constructing a Future for Cortesia in the Past:
Virility, Nobility, and the History of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines
The Familial Court of Cortesia: The Civil Acts of the Malaspina Family
Cortesia Was Chaste: The Virility of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines
Virility as Nobility: Cortesia in Romagna
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