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, ...
Historically speaking, the production of poetry precedes the production of prose in almost all societies.
Poetry is easier to remember and it meets the needs of oral cultures without long novels.
So verse was still much more of an everyday medium for expression: sermons and chronicles were written in verse.
Most of medieval lyrics are anonymous and extremely difficult to date.
The most important lyrical genres are the spring song, the love lyric, the love complaint and religious lyrics.
Poems are often set to music and meant to be sung, which was quite the norm for lyrics up to the 16th century.
Middle English metrics don't break completely with the Old English tradition, but rather develop it.
The great novelty introduced by French literary models is rhyme.
Ballads are short, anonymous narrative poems or songs elaborated by oral transmission.
Ballads are composed by ordinary people to be sung.
Most ballads treat some tragic events, which also include supernatural elements in some way.
Some are based on well-known legendary or romantic figures, such as Robin Hood, and others maybe based on real historical events.
The ballad uses a very direct language and a simple metrical pattern: stanzas of four lines, called quatrains, with four beats often followed by a refrain (the repetition of one or more lines).

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