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Cover
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART ONE Power and Politics in Boccaccio’s Times
1 An Apprenticeship in Politics (1341–1343)
From Naples to Florence: Santa Felicita in Oltrarno
The Bardi Conspiracy of 1340
“Endeavour to Make One or More Friends”
The Call and the Fall of the Duke of Athens
2 Boccaccio and Politics (1348–1355)
The Plague and Its Aftermath
Boccaccio’s Political Years
“Petrarch’s War” and the War against the Visconti
Boccaccio’s Last Offices and Disappearance
3 The 1360 Conspiracy (1359–1361)
The Guelf Party and Terror of the Ammonizioni
The Ringleaders
The Dynamics of the Conspiracy
The Informants
The Death Sentence
The Other Conspirators
4 Consequences of the Conspiracy (1361–1365)
The Defamatory Portraits
The Executed: Niccolò di Bartolo del Buono and Domenico Bandini
The Exiles: The Case of Luca di Feo Ugolini
Boccaccio’s Withdrawal to Certaldo
PART TWO At the Intersections of Literature and Politics
5 Antityrannical Motives in De mulieribus claris
Friendship in Time of Conspiracy
Florence: The Prostitutes Venus and Flora and the Seduced Hercules
Antityrannical Motives
The Stoic Suicide: Escape towards Freedom
6 The Consolatoria a Pino de’ Rossi: A Manifesto on Innocence
Who Was Pino de’ Rossi?
Boccaccio’s Letter: A Manifesto on Innocence
Against Judges: Milex Ludovicus Juvenalis Cardolis de Narnia
The Corruption of the Florentines
Pino de’ Rossi and Friends
The Consolations of Giovanni Boccaccio
The Questionable Innocence of Pino de’ Rossi
Appendix: Summary of Boccaccio’s Consolatoria a Pino de’ Rossi
7 The Lives of Dante
The Life of Dante: First Version
Self-Censorship in the Second Version
The Deletion of Monarchia
A Change of Audience
Lapo da Castiglionchio
Tensions with Petrarch: On the Solitary Life
Boccaccio’s Enduring Fidelity to Dante
8 Conspirators in the Decameron
What’s in a Name? Donati and Monna Nonna
Decameron VI: The Florentine Day
Fortune and Nature: A Philosophical Debate
Noble Blood versus Noble Soul: A Political Debate
Founding the Utopian City
Afterword
Appendices
Appendix 1 Genealogical Tables
1. Giovanni di Boccaccio da Certaldo
2. Bice di Nepo de’ Bostichi
3. Messer Pino di Giovanni de’ Rossi
4. Monna Oretta Malespini (Dec. VI.1) and Messer Geri di Manetto Spini (Dec. VI.2)
5. Monna Nonna de’ Pulci (Dec. VI.3)
6. Currado Gianfigliazzi (Dec. VI.4)
7. Betto di Brunello Brunelleschi (Dec. VI.9)
Appendix 2 Transcriptions of Documents
1. The Death Sentence
2. Document stating that Luca di Feo Ugolini is in Volterra
3. The inheritance to be received by Niccolò di Luca di Feo Ugolini from his mother’s estate
Appendix 3 The Conspirators: Prosopographical Notes
1. Niccolò di Bartolo del Buono
2. Domenico di Donato Bandini
3. Messer Pino di Giovanni de’ Rossi
4. Uberto di Ubaldino degli Infangati
5. Beltramo di Bartolomeo de’ Pazzi
6. Andrea di Tello da Lisca
7. Niccolò di Guido de’ Frescobaldi
8. Andrea di Pacchio degli Adimari
9. Pazzino di Messer Apardo Donati
10. Luca di Feo Ugolini
11. Pelliccia de’ Gherardini
12. Frate Cristofano di Nuccio
Bibliography
Index of Names