Boccaccio's Florence

Politics and People in His Life and Work

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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’s Florence explores the financial, political, and social turbulence of Florence at this time, as well as the major players in literary and political circles, to understand the complex ways they emerged in Boccaccio’s writing. Based on extensive archival research and close reading of Boccaccio’s works, the book aims to recover the dynamics of the Florentine conspiracy of 1360 and how this event affected Boccaccio’s writing, arguing that his works reveal clear references to this episode when read in light of the reconstructed historical context.In this rich and textured picture of the man in his time, Elsa Filosa documents a microhistory of connections and interconnections and offers new, more political and historically imbedded readings of Boccaccio’s seminal works.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-09
Mått159 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieToronto Italian Studies
Antal sidor360
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487505806
UtmärkelserWinner of 2023 Premio Flaiano di Italianistica “Luca Attanasio” Prize Awarded by the Ennio Flaiano Cultural Association 2023 (Italy)

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List of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Power and Politics in Boccaccio’s Times1. An Apprenticeship in Politics, 1341–43From Naples to Florence: Santa Felicita in OltrarnoThe Bardi Conspiracy of 1340"Endeavour to make one or more friends"The Call and the Fall of the Duke of Athens2. Boccaccio and Politics, 1348–55The Plague and Its AftermathBoccaccio’s Political Years, 1348–55"Petrarch’s War" and the War against the ViscontiBoccaccio’s Last Offices and Disappearance3. The 1360 Conspiracy, 1359–61The Guelf Party and Terror of the AmmonizioniThe RingleadersThe Dynamics of the ConspiracyThe InformantsThe Death SentenceThe Other Conspirators4. Consequences, 1361–65Defamatory PortraitsThe Executed: Niccolò di Bartolo del Buono and Domenico BandiniThe Exiles: The Case of Luca di Feo UgoliniBoccaccio’s Withdrawal to CertaldoPart Two: At the Intersections of Literature and Politics5. Anti-tyrannical Motives in De mulieribus claris Friendship in Time of ConspiracyFlorence: The Prostitutes Venus and Flora and the Seduced HerculesAnti-tyrannical MotivesThe Stoic Suicide: Escape toward Freedom6. The Consolatoria a Pino de’ Rossi: A Manifesto on InnocenceWho Was Pino de’ Rossi?Boccaccio's Letter: A Manifesto on InnocenceAgainst Judges: Milex Ludovicus Juvinalis Cardolis de NarniaThe Corruption of the FlorentinesPino de’ Rossi and FriendsThe Consolations of Giovanni BoccaccioThe Questionable Innocence of Pino de’ RossiSummary of Boccaccio’s Consolatoria a Pino de’ Rossi7. The Lives of DanteThe Life of Dante: First VersionSelf-Censorship in the Second VersionThe Deletion of MonarchiaA Change of AudienceLapo da CastiglionchioTensions with Petrarch: On the Solitary LifeBoccaccio’s Enduring Fidelity to Dante8. Conspirators in the DecameronWhat’s in a Name: Donati and Monna NonnaDecameron VI: The Florentine DayFortune and Nature: A Philosophical DebateNoble Blood versus Noble Soul: A Political DebateFounding the Utopian CityAfterword