Contesto generale La novella di Cisti il fornaio è la seconda della sesta giornata del Decameron di Boccaccio. In questa giornata, tutte le novelle hanno un tema comune: il modo elegante e intelligente (con arte e garbo) con cui i personaggi riescono a rispondere a situazioni difficili, spesso grazie all’arguzia, alla prontezza di spirito o all’uso sapiente delle parole (i cosiddetti “motti”). La narratrice è Pampinea, una delle sette giovani protagoniste del Decameron, che introduce la novella con una riflessione: a volte la natura e la fortuna premiano persone di umili origini, dotandole di un'anima nobile e virtuosa, proprio come accade a Cisti. Trama in breve Cisti è un fornaio fiorentino, quindi un uomo del popolo, ma di grande eleganza, educazione e intelligenza. Egli possiede un ottimo vino bianco, che desidera offrire a Geri Spina, un nobile fiorentino che ogni giorno passa davanti alla sua bottega insieme agli ambasciatori di papa Bonifacio VIII. Cisti però sa che, ...
John Milton was born into a Protestant family in London.
He went to St. Paul's School then to Cambridge where he took his Master of Arts degree in 1632.
He was in Italy in 1639 before the Civil war broke out.
He returned to England to support the Puritan cause and in 1649 became Latin secretary to the Cromwell's Council of State.
With the fall of the Commonwealth, Milton retired from public life and wrote the greatest epic poem of the Renaissance: Paradise lost.
This poem is based on the biblical story of the temptation of Adam and Eve by the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
In this poem there is a fusion of classical themes and Christian doctrine, according to the Humanism.
Paradise lost was written "to justify the ways of God to men", in order to make clear in their justness.
Milton admires man's free will, but he criticizes one of the biggest man's sins : the pride.
In fact, it's this sin that causes Satan's fall.
The author analyses, through soliloquies, the behaviour of several characters.
Milton gives Satan the rhetorical voice of a leader who has lost everything, except his self-esteem.
For this reason, according to Romantics, he is considered a dark solitary hero.
Some of Milton's prose writings had a direct relation to his life such as The doctrine and discipline of divorce.
Other works treat political events such as the introduction of book censorship in England in Areopagitica.
He died in 1674.
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