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OverviewBest 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 Filosadocuments a microhistory of connections and interconnections and offers new, more political and historically imbedded readings of Boccaccio's seminal works. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elsa FilosaPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.660kg ISBN: 9781487505806ISBN 10: 1487505809 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 09 November 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Power and Politics in Boccaccio’s Times 1. An Apprenticeship in Politics, 1341–43 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, 1348–55 The Plague and Its Aftermath Boccaccio’s Political Years, 1348–55 “Petrarch’s War” and the War against the Visconti Boccaccio’s Last Offices and Disappearance 3. The 1360 Conspiracy, 1359–61 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, 1361–65 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. Anti-tyrannical Motives in De mulieribus claris Friendship in Time of Conspiracy Florence: The Prostitutes Venus and Flora and the Seduced Hercules Anti-tyrannical Motives The Stoic Suicide: Escape toward 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 Juvinalis 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 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 AfterwordReviewsA magisterial, deeply learned, and meticulously researched study that brings together Boccaccio's political, social, and literary worlds in unique ways. - William P. Caferro, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Elsa Filosa's book is actually two books in one. It is both an archivally based reconstruction of a relatively little-known moment in Florentine history whose impact on Boccaccio was determining, and a re-reading of several of the novelliere's works in light of these new historical discoveries. - Zygmunt G. Baranski, Serena Professor of Italian Emeritus, University of Cambridge Pleasantly detailed and compellingly rigorous, Elsa Filosa's new book is an invaluable historical gateway into Boccaccio's life and works. Reconstructing for today's readers the context of his writings, including some among the most beloved stories in the Decameron, it contains a salutary reminder of how much history lies behind their brilliant surface, hidden in plain sight. - Simone Marchesi, Associate Professor of Italian, Princeton University Author InformationElsa Filosa is an assistant professor of the practice in Italian at Vanderbilt University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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