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1 online resource (214 pages). |
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Toronto Italian studies |
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Toronto Italian studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Dante's Harsh New Style -- Chapter One: La debita correzione: The Poetics of Insult in the Duecento -- Chapter Two: Ad personam, ad stipitem: Readings of the Sonnets -- Chapter Three: Hellish Echoes: Reminiscences of the Correspondence in Inferno XXIX and XXX -- Chapter Four: The Terrace of the Tenzone: Purgatorio XXIII and XXIV -- Chapter Five: Citations and Interpretations: The Literary Memory of the Sonnets in Boccaccio and Others. |
| Summary |
"'And by now, mind, it's too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.' Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged and evoked the memory of his youthful put-downs. |
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Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati examines the lasting impact of these sonnets on Dante's writings and Italian literary culture, notably in the work of Giovanni Boccaccio. Fabian Alfie expands on derision as an ethical dimension of medieval literature, both facilitating the reprehension of vice and encouraging ongoing debates about the true nature of nobility. Outlining a broad perspective on the uses of literary insult, Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati also provides an evocative glimpse of Dante's day-to-day life in the twelfth century."--Pub. desc. |
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Chiefly in English. Includes some text in the original Italian, followed by the English translation. |
| Subject |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Donati, Forese, -1296.
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Tenzone di Dante con Forese Donati.
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. (OCoLC)fst00029097
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Donati, Forese, -1296. (OCoLC)fst01816149
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Tenzone di Dante con Forese Donati. (OCoLC)fst01383944
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Invective in literature.
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POETRY -- Continental European.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
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Invective in literature. (OCoLC)fst00977990
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alfie, Fabian. Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati : The Reprehension of Vice. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9781442642232 |
| ISBN |
9781442663619 (electronic bk.) |
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1442663618 (electronic bk.) |
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