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Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance

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Author(s): Michaela Paasche Grudin, Robert Grudin (auth.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2012

Language: English
Tags: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; History of Medieval Europe; Medieval Literature; World History, Global and Transnational History; Classical and Antique Literature; Anthropology

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Cicero and the Decameron....Pages 1-15
Ingegno—The Individual and Authority: Decameron, Day I....Pages 17-29
Ingegno—Wit as the Soul of Action: Day II....Pages 31-41
Ingegno—Wit as Misdirection and Iconoclasm: Day III....Pages 43-53
Reason’s Debt to Passion: Day IV....Pages 55-65
The Shock of Recognition: Day V....Pages 67-78
Misrule and Inspiration: Day VI....Pages 79-91
Valley of Ingegno: Day VII....Pages 93-103
Boccaccio’s Ship of Fools: Day VIII....Pages 105-116
Truth, Lie, and Eloquence: Day IX....Pages 117-127
The Ciceronian Synthesis: Day X and Author’s Conclusion....Pages 129-146
Epilogue: The Decameron and Italian Culture....Pages 147-150
Back Matter....Pages 151-186