Courtesy Lost : Dante, Boccaccio, and the Literature of History.

Cover -- Copyright -- 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 -- Cortesia and the Florentine Elite from the Early Commune to the Age of Dante -- The Dantean cornice of Inferno 16 and cortesia Lost: Decameron 1.8, 6.9, and Esposizioni 16 -- The Greed of the Genoese (Not Florentine) Elite: Decameron 1.8, Guiglielmo Borsiere, and Ermino Grimaldi -- The Incivility of cortesia: Decameron 6.9, Betto Brunelleschi, and Guido Cavalcanti -- Conclusion -- 2 Boccaccio's Politics of cortesia: Narrating 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 to 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 -- Conclusion -- 3 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 -- Conclusion -- 4 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 -- Nobility's Inheritance: The Case of Federigo degli Alberighi -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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