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050 00 $aPQ4556.T317$bA44 2011
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100 1 $aAlfie, Fabian.
245 10 $aDante's Tenzone with Forese Donati :$bthe reprehension of vice /$cFabian Alfie.
260 $aToronto ;$bBuffalo :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$cc2011.
300 $a214 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aToronto Italian studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [185]-206) and index.
546 $aChiefly in English. Includes some text in the original Italian, followed by the English translation.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
520 $a"'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.
520 $aDante'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.
600 00 $aDante Alighieri,$d1265-1321$xCriticism and interpretation.
630 00 $aTenzone di Dante con Forese Donati.
600 10 $aDonati, Forese,$dd. 1296.
650 0 $aInvective in literature.
830 0 $aToronto Italian studies.