‘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 an...

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1. Verfasser:	Alfie, Fabian (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Toronto University of Toronto Press [2017]
Schlagworte:	Donati, Forese > -1296 Dante > Alighieri > 1265-1321 Invective in literature
Online-Zugang:	DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-739 DE-1046 DE-1043 DE-858 URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Zusammenfassung:	‘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.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
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed May. 17, 2017)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource 2 illustrations; 14 charts
ISBN:	9781442663619
DOI:	10.3138/9781442663619