literary life: lecturae Dantis, lv;
library, lii ‘Neapolitan’ works, xxxv;
return to Florence, xxxvii–viii;
writing style, lv, lxvxiv–v
love affair, xli
patrons, xli, xlix
on poets, xlvi
on Robert the Wise, xxxiii
on storytelling, xlvi, cxxvii
vision of mysterious messenger, li–ii
WORKS
Amorosa visione, xl, lvi, lxxv, lxxvii, cxxxiii, 865
Buccolieum carmen, xlix, liv
Caccia di Diana, xxxv, lxxv, 845
Comedía delle ninfe fiorentine (Ameto), xxxix–xl, xliii, xlviii, lvi, lxii, lxxii, lxxiv, lxxv
Corbaccio, xlvii–viii, 854
De casibus virorum illustrium, 1–li, cxxxiii, 833, 865
De montibus, silvis…, liii
De mulieribus claris, 1, li, liii
Decameron, see Decameron
Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta, xxxviii–ix, xl, lvi, lxiv, lxxii
Epistola consolatoria a Pino de’ Rossi, xlvii, xlviii
Esposizioni sopra la Comedía di Dante, xxxii, xlvii, lxv, 826, 836
Filocolo, xxxv–vi, xxxviii, xliii, xlvii, lvii, lxi, lxxii, xciii, 834, 848, 853, 857, 864
Filostrato, xxxv, lvii, lxxii, cxxxiii, 803, 825, 830, 837, 869
Genealogia deorum gentilium, xxxiv, xlv–vi, xlvii, 1
Ninfalefiesolano, xl, 845
Rime, lv
Teseida,xxxv, xliii, lvii, lxxii, lxxv, cxxxiii, 850
Trattatello in laude di Dante, xlvii
Zibaldone Magliabechiano, 1
Boccaccio, Iacopo, xl, xlviii, xlix
Boccaccio di Chellino, xxxi–ii, xxxvii, xxxix–xl, xliv, lxxxiii–iv
Boccadoro, San Giovanni, 808
Boccamazza, Pietro (V, 3), cxxxvii–viii, 833
Bólgaro, Marin, 833
Bologna, lxx, cvi, cxxv, cxxx, 833, 848, 849, 855, 856, 864, 869, 870
Bolzano, 811
Bonaccorri da Ginestreto (VIII, 2), 851
Bondanella, Peter, xxiii
Boniface VIII, Pope (I, 1 ,Vi ,2, X), 805, 833, 838, 863
Bonomo, Giuseppe, 846
Borsiere, Guiglielmo (I,8) cxxv, 809
Bosco, Umberto, cixn.
Bostichi, Bice de’, xl, xliv
Botticelli, Sandro, lxxix
Brabant, Mary of, 818
Branca, Vittore, xxiv, xxvii, xxviii, xl, xliv, lxii, lxxii, xcvi, xcviii, cxx, cxxii, 818, 819, 828, 860
Brindisi, 861
Brittany, 864
Brosse, Pierre de la, 818
Bruges, 812
Brunelleschi, Betto (VI, 9), 841
Bruno (VIII, 3, viii, viii, ix, 3, ix, 852, 855, 857, 858
Brutus, 823, 855
Buffalmacco (VIII, 3, VIII, viii, ix, 3, ix, 852, 856, 857, 858
Buffia (‘Prankland’) (VI, 10), cxlii
Buglietto (VIII, 2), 851
buona fortuna (good fortune), cx
Buonconvento (IX, 4), 859
Burgundy, cxix–xx
business practices, cxxii–iv, cxxxv–vi
Buttafuoco, Francesco, 814
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord, xciv
Caccianimico, Niccoluccio (X, 4), 864
Caina, xc
Calabria, 813, 834
Calandrino (Nozzo di Pierino) (VIII, 3, VIII, ix, 3, ix, 824, 852, 858, 859, 860
Caltabellotta, 866
treaty of (1302), 813
Camerata (VII, 1, ix, lxxvii, 846, 859
Camollia, 854
Campi Bisenzio (V, 9), 836
Camposanto di Pisa, 852, 855
Can Grande della Scala (1, 808
Candia (Heraklion), Crete, 828
canonical hours, 805, 806, 821, 831, 843, 848
Capece family (II, 6), 814
Capellanus, Andreas, cv, cvi, 803, 853
Cappadocia, 817
Capretius (Caprezio) (VI, 10), 844, 870
Capri, island of, 834
Capulets, 841
Caracciolo family (II, 6), 814
Carisendi, Gentile de’ (X, 4), xciii, 864
Carlyle, Jane, lxxxviin.
carole, 845
Casa, Giovanni della, 837
Cassius, 823, 855
Castelfiorentino, 837, 856
Castellamare di Stabia (X, 6), 865
Castile, 863
Catalonia, 866
Catania, 814
Catella (III, 6), 822
Caterina (V, 4), lxix, lxxxii–iv, 815
Cathay (China), 864
Catherine of Valois-Courtenay, xxxvii, 816–17, 857
Cavalcanti, Cavalcante de’, cxxix, 842
Cavalcanti, Guido (VI, 9), cxxix, 827, 841–2, 862
Cavalcanti, Mainardo de’, 1, li
Cavicciuli, Loggia de’ (IX, 8), 861
Cefalù PC, 866
Celtic fringe, cxlii
Cepperello (I, 1), see Ciappelletto
Cerchi, Vieri de’ (IX, 8), 860–61
Cerchi family, 839
Certaldo, xxvi, xxviii, xxxi, xxxii, xlviii, liv, 843, 852, 862
Cesca (VI, 8), cxxviii, 841
Cesena, 833, 856
Cesspool, Countess of (VIII, 9), cxli, 856
Charity, lxxv
Charles I, King of Naples (‘Charles the Old’) (II, 6, X, 6), xciii, cvi, 813, 814, 865, 866
Charles II, King of Naples (II, 5), 813, 866
Charles IV (Holy Roman Emperor), liv
Charles of Valois (‘Carlo Senzaterra’) (I, 1), 805, 861
Chastelaine de Vergi, La, 825
Chatillon, Lord of (VI, 10), 843
Chaucer, Geoffrey, xxvii, xxxv, lxxiv, lxxvii
WORKS
Clerk’s Tale, 868–9
Franklin’s Tale, 864
Knight’s Tale, xxxv, 850
Merchant’s Tale, 850
Reeve’s Tale, cxxxvii, 860
Rotnaunt of the Rose, lxxvii
Shipman’s Tale, ci, 851
Troilus and Criseyde, xxxv, 869
chess (VII, 7), cvi, 848
Chianciano Terme, 863
Chiarenza, 816
Chiarmontesi, Alessandro (IX, 1), 858
Chichibio (VI, 4), cxxviii, 839
Chios, island of (II, 7), xcvi, 817
Chremes (X, 8), 867
church, see anti-clericalism
Ciacco (IX, 8), 860
Ciani, Gioacchino, lii
Ciappelletto ‘Saint’ (l, I), xxvii, cxix–xxiv, cxxx, 806, 843
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, lxi, cxxx, 843, 865, 867
Cignano, Niccolò da (VIII, 10), 857
Cilicia, 835
Cimabue (Cenni di Pepo), cxxix, 840, 870
Cimon (V, I), lxxxvi, cxxvii, cxxxvi, 828, 831–2
Cino da Pistoia, xxxv, lxxxv, 827
Cinque Terre, 863
Cipolla, Friar (VI, 10), lxxiv, cxxi, cxxix–xxx, cxlii–iii, 824, 830, 837, 843, 844, 851, 852, 853, 870
Cisti (VI, 2), cxxviii, cxxxiv
Ciutazza (VIII, 4), 853
Civillari, contessa di (VIII, 9), cxli, 856
Clarke, Kenny, cxxxiiin.
Classe, pinewood of, near Ravenna, c, 835
Clement IV, Pope, 814
Cluny, Abbot of (I, 7, X, 2), 809, 863
Codice Laurenziano, 850
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 864
Collectiones of Paolo da Perugia, xxxiv–v
Cologne, 809
Colonna family, 833
Comœdia Lydiae, 849
comparatico, 850
Compline, 805
Confiteor, 843
Conrad II, Malaspina (II, 6), 815
Conradin (Conrad V) (X, 6), 865
Constance, Queen, 828, 834, 866
Constant (II, 7), xcvi
Constantinople, 808
contrapasso, 854
Coppo di Borghese Domenichi (V, 9), lix, 836
Corfu, island of, cxxxv
Corinth (I
I, 7), 816
Cornacchini, Niccolò (IX, 5), 859
cornice, lviii, lxi, lxxviii
Corniglia, 863
Cornwall, Earl of (II, 3), 812
Corrado degli Aleramici, 807–8
Corsignano, 859
Cottino-Jones, Marga, xxiv
Council of Trent, 823, 848
Court of Love, xxxvi
Cressida (Filostrato), lxxii, 825, 831, 837, 869
Cressida (VI, Introduction), 837
Crete, island of, 828
Crimea, 817
Croce, Benedetto, cxxiii, cxxxix
Crusades, cvi, cxxv, 807, 809, 810, 835, 867, 868
Currado family (II, 6), 815
cursus planus, lxiv
Cyprus, island of, lxxxvi, cxxv, cxxxv, 809–10
Damon and Pythias, 867
danse du ventre, 816
Dante Alighieri, lii, lxiv, lxv, lxxii, xc, 836, 841, 858, 862
banishment from Florence, 805, 863
B.’s lectures on, lv
B.’s veneration of, xxv, xxxii, xli, xlvii
death, xli, 835
Fortune, and, cxxxiii–iv
poetic style, xlix, 827
on Robert the Wise, xxxiii
WORKS
Commedia (Divine Comedy), xxxii, xxxvii, xlii, lxxxix, cxi, cxxxiii, cxliii, 804, 807, 826, 835–6, 838, 848, 854:
Inferno, xxxix, xlvii, lxv, lxxx, lxxxvi, lxxxix, xc, c, cxvi, cxxix, cxxxiii–iv, 808, 800, 811, 823, 827, 836, 839, 840, 842, 852, 855, 860, 861, 865;
Purgatorio, lxxvii, c, cxxix, 814, 815, 818, 833, 835, 838, 840;
Paradiso, 808, 825, 826, 836, 843
Convivio, xxix, 862, 869
Vita nuova, 831, 848
David and Bathsheba, 861
Decameron
antecedents and sources, xxvi, lvii–lxi, 803
cornice (frame), lviii, lxi, lxxviii
explicit language, lxix–lxx, 825
headings to stories, lxxi
locations where stories told, lxxv–viii
names oilieta brigata, lxxii–iii
reply to critics of, lxiv–vi, 826
structure of, xxvi, xlii–iii, lxxv, cxii
style, 826
title, lvii, 803, 826
alternative title, cxi
translation problems, xxxiii, cxli–iv, 825, 840, 844, 851
vernacular narrative prose, 826
writing of, xlvi, liv
Prologue, xxv, xxvi, xlviii, lxi–ii, lxiii–iv, cx, cxiv
First Day, xlii, cxxiv–vi:
Introduction, xlii, xliii, lxvi, lxxv, cxii, cxv, cxvii;
First Story, lxxiii, cxix–exxiv, cxxx, 843, 863;
Second Story, cxxiv;
Third Story, lviii, cxxiv, 867;
Fourth Story, lxxiv, cxxiv–exxv
Fifth Story, cviii, cxxv, 848;
Sixth Story, cxxv;
Seventh Story, cxxv, 807, 863;
Eighth Story, cxxv, 819;
Ninth Story, cxxv;
Tenth Story, cxxv–vi, cxxviii, 827, 838, 849
Second Day, li, lx, cxxii, cxxvi, cxxxii–vii:
First Story, 868;
Second Story, 846, 853;
Third Story, cxxxiv;
Fourth Story, 809, 861;
Fifth Story, xxxiv, cxxxvi–vii, cxxxix, 822, 857;
Sixth Story, cxxxvi, 814, 832, 834, 865;
Seventh Story, 866;
Eighth Story, lx, cxxxvi;
Ninth Story, xciii, cviii, cxxxv, cxxxvi;
Tenth Story, cii, cxxxvi, 849;
Conclusion, 850
Third Day, lxxv, lxxvi–vii, cxxvi–vii:
Introduction, 805;
First Story, cxxvii;
Second Story, xc, cxxvi, 834, 854;
Third Story, cii, cxxvi, 849;
Fourth Story, 846, 870;
Fifth Story, cii, cvii, 841;
Sixth Story, cii, cvi;
Seventh Story, cix, cxx;
Eighth Story, 848, 868;
Ninth Story, xciii, cxxvii;
Tenth Story, lxix, 826;
Conclusion, 851
Fourth Day, lxxiv, lxxxvi, xcvi:
Introduction, xxv, xxxv, xlvii–viii, lxxxi, lxiv, lxvi–viii, lxxxi, cxii, 838;
First Story, lxxx–lxxxv, cxxxi, 815, 853;
Second Story, cxlii, 839, 849, 864;
Fourth Story, cvi, cxxxvi, 834, 848;
Fifth Story, lxxxvi, lxxxvii–viii, 860;
Sixth Story, 860;
Ninth Story, lxxiv, lxxxvi, lxxxix, xc
Fifth Day, cvili:
First Story, lxxxvi–vi, cxxvii, cxxxvi, 828;
Second Story, cxxvii, cxxxvi;
Third Story, cxxxviii;
Fourth Story, lxix, lxxxii, 815;
Sixth Story, cxxxvi;
Seventh Story, cii, 861;
Eighth Story, cviii;
Ninth Story, lix, cvii, 807;
Tenth Story, lviii, cii, 611, 844, 847
Sixth Day, lxxv, lxxviii, cxviii, cxxvii–viii:
First Story, cxxvii;
Second Story, cxxviii, cxxxiv, 863;
Third Story, cxxviii;
Fourth Story, cxxviii;
Fifth Story, cxxviü-ix;
Sixth Story, cxxix;
Seventh Story, ci, cxxviii;
Eighth Story, cxxviii;
Ninth Story, cxxix, 827;
Tenth story, lxxiv, cxxi, cxxix–cxxx, cxlii, 824, 830, 837, 851, 853, 868, 870;
Conclusion, lxxviii, 805
Seventh Day, lxxiv, lxxix, ci, cii, cxviii, cxxx–xxxi:
First Story, lxvi, cxxxi, 859;
Second Story, lviii;
Third Story, cxx, 823, 850;
Fourth Story, cxxxi;
Seventh Story, cv, cvii;
Eighth Story, cxxxi;
Ninth Story, cxxx
Eighth Day, cxviii:
First Story, ci, 849;
Second Story, xxviii, cxli, 819, 824, 870;
Third Story, cxl, 824, 844, 855, 859, 860, 868;
Fourth Story, 853;
Fifth Story, 852;
Sixth Story, cxl, 852, 855;
Seventh Story, xlvii, 810, 811, 860, 861, 868;
Ninth Story, cxli, 838, 868;
Tenth Story, 813, 819
Ninth Day, lxxiii, lxxv:
Introduction, lxxviii;
First Story, cix, 853;
Second Story, cvi, 870;
Third Story, cxl, 852, 859;
Fifth Story, cxl, 852, 858;
Sixth Story, cii, cxxxvii;
Seventh Story, 861;
Ninth Story, cxxxiv, 860
Tenth Day, xlvi, lxxiii, cxv, cxxxii:
First Story, cxxxiii;
Second Story, 819;
Third Story, cxxxii;
Fourth Story, xxxvi, xciii, 849;
Fifth Story, xxxvi, xciii, 858, 868;
Sixth Story, xciii, cvi;
Seventh Story, cvi;
Eighth Story, xciii, cii, cvii;
Ninth Story, lxxx, 807;
Tenth Story, xlvi, lxxiv, cxxix, 854;
Conclusion, cxv
Epiloga* (Conchtsione dell’autote), xxv, xlvi, lxxi, cxii
Decius, 849
Dego della Ratta, 839
Dido, lxxii, 835
Dietaiuti, Cepperello, of Prato, 805
Digne (X, 9), 868
Dione, lxxiii
Dioneo (member of the lieta brigata), lxxiii, lxxiv, lxxv, cxvii, cxxix, 805, 807, 837, 845, 850, 854, 868
Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro, xxxv
Directorium humanae vitae, lix
Disciplina clericato, lviii, 848, 867
dogana, 857
dolce stil novo (poetic style), xxxv, lxiv, lxxii, cxiv, 827, 828, 832, 841, 862
Dolopathos, lx
domestic space, cxxx–xxxi
Domus Sana, 865
Don juan (Byron), xciv
Donati family, 839
Corso Donati (IX, 8), 841, 861
d’Or
ia, Guasparrino (II, 6), 815
Douai, 852
Durling, Robert M, cxin.
Earthly Paradise, lxxvi, lxxvii–viii, c, cxvi, 820, 836
Ecce ancilla Dei, 869
Edward de Balliol, King of Scotland, 812
Edward II, King of England, xxviii, 812, 839
Edward III, King of England, xli, 812, 817
Elena (VIII, 7), 854
Elissa (member of the lieta brigata), lxxii, lxxv, cvi, 828
Ember weeks, 819
Emilia (member of the lieta brigata), lxxii, lxxiii, lxxv
Emilia (province), 807, 815
Emilia (Teseida), 850
England
broader meaning of, 818
Kings of, xxviii, 811–12, 817
Envy, lxiv, 826
Epicurus, 808
Euganean hills, liv
Euripides, 1
Eve, li
Evesham, battle of (1265), 865
exempla, xxvi, lviii, lxii, 803, 848, 862
explicit language, lxix–lxx, 825
bawdy songs (V, Conclusion), 836
Extreme Unction, cxx
Fables of Bidpai (or Pilpay), lix
fabliaux, xxvi, lviii, lxii, cvi, cxxx, cxxxvii, 803, 849, 850, 851, 853, 860
Faenza (V, 5), 833
Faith, lxxv, 804
Fano (V, 5), 833
Farinata degli Uberti (V, 9), 840, 865
Federigo degli Alberighi (V, 9), lix, cvii–viii
Federigo di Neri Pegolotti (VII, 1), 846
feminism, see anti-feminism
Ferondo (III, 8), 823–4
Fiammetta (Elegia), xxxviii, lxxii
Fiammetta (Filocolo), xxxvi, 864
Fiammetta (member of the lieta brigata), lix, lxxii, lxxiv, cvi, 822, 836
Fiesole, lxxvi, lxxvii, 846, 852–3, 859
Figiovanni, Carlo de’, 862–3
Figiovanni, Ruggieri de’ (X, 1), cxxxiii, 862
Filippa (Madonna Filippa of Prato) (VI, 7), ci–ii, cxxviii, 841
Filomena (Filostrato), 825
Filomena (member of the lieta brigata), lxxii, lxxiv, cix, cxiii, cxvii, cxxvi, cxxviii, 825, 831
Filostrato (member of the lieta brigata), lxxii, lxxiv, lxxv, 805, 825
Finale Ligure, 819
Fiordaliso, Madonna (II, 5), 813–14
Flanders, 852
Flora, Madonna, 814
Florence, xxxi et passim
B. and: birth, xxxi–ii; return to, xxxvii; views on, xxxviii–ix
Badia (church), 852
Baptistery of San Giovanni, 842, 855
Biblioteca Laurenziana, lviii, 850
Cacavincigli (VIII, 9), 856
Camaldoli (IX, 5), 859
cathedral, 842
Corso degli Adimari (VI, 9) (Via Calzaiuoli), 842, 861
coup d’état of 1361, xlviii, liii
Dante and, 805, 809
diplomacy in support of papacy’s return to Italy, liii
government of, xli
humour, cxli–ii invasion threatened, liv
Mercato Vecchio (VIII, 9), 855
merchant class, lvii, lxxxiii, cxxii, cxxx, cxxxii, 809, 812
Orsammichele district (VI, 9), 842
palio (horse race), 839