E-book
Courtesy lost : Dante, Boccaccio, and the literature of history
Record details
- ISBN: 1442647078
- ISBN: 9781442647077
- ISBN: 1442667192
- ISBN: 9781442667198
- ISBN: 1442667184
- ISBN: 9781442667181
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction. "Fateci dipignere la Cortesia": Historicizing cortesia -- 1 Boccaccio's History of cortesia: The Incivility and Greed of the Elite -- 2 Boccaccio's Politics of cortesia: Narrating the Elite and the gente nuova -- 3 The Ethical (and Dantean) Framework of the Decameron: The Avarice of Clerics and Merchants -- 4 Constructing a Future for cortesia in the Past: Virility, Nobility, and the History of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. |
