Courtesy Lost: Dante

Acknowledgments  Introduction  "Fateci dipingere la Cortesia": Historicizing Cortesia  Chapter One  Boccaccio's History of Cortesia: The Incivility and Greed of Elite Families   * Cortesia and the Florentine Elite from the Early Commune to the Age of Dante * The Dantean cornice of Inf. 16 and "cortesia" lost:  Decameron 1.8, 6.9 and Esposizioni 16 * The Greed of the Genoese (but not Florentine) Elite: Decameron 1.8, Guiglielmo Borsiere, and Ermino Grimaldi * The Incivility of Cortesia:  Decameron 6.9, Betto Brunelleschi and Guido Cavalcanti   Chapter Two  The Politics of Cortesia: Historicizing the Elite and the gente nuova   * Florentine Politics and Economics from Dante to Boccaccio:  The Older Elite Families and the gente nuova * From Dantean Prophecy to Boccaccian Enactment: Florence from 1300-1302 * Figuring Florentine Conflict: Corso Donati (cortesia) versus Vieri de' Cerchi (avarizia) * The Elite and the popolo: The Case of Cisti and Geri Spini * The Arno Runs Red:  Narrating Florentine Violence   Chapter Three  The Ethical (and Dantean) Framework of the Decameron:  The Avarice of Clerics and Merchants   * Cangrande della Scala: Dante's Generous Host Experiences an Unusual, and Momentary, Affliction of Avarice * Pope Boniface VIII: Figuring Avarice at the Beginning and End of the Decameron * A Tempered "epopea dei mercatanti": Musciatto Franzesi and the Avarice of the Merchant Class * The Dantean cornice of Avarice: Esposizioni 1 and Decameron 10.3 * From Finance to Fowling: The Case of the Gianfigliazzi Family   Chapter Four  Constructing a Future for Cortesia in the Past:  Virility, Nobility, and the History of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines   * The Familial Court of Cortesia: The Civil Acts of the Malaspina Family * Cortesia Was Chaste: The Virility of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines * Virility as Nobility: Cortesia in Romagna   Bibliography