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, ...
Older people are said to be a much better leader ... aren't they?

The generational gap is an old phenomenon which dates back to 3000 b.C. and is grown up with the advent of Internet and new technologies.
This generational conflict is based on disagreement between young people and old people about habits and customs, ideas, traditions, opportunities, vision of progress, world and political, economic and social management of a country.
In fact, older people have a conservative vision about the world, which is based on social and cultural prejudices and limits. In order to keep your ideas and their place in society, they often opposed to generational progres, claiming that new generations are inexperienced and rebel against the traditional value system.
Instead of older people, young people are free by social and cultural prejudices and limits, they are open-minded and support progress and its transformations.
However, they think everything belongs to the older people appears as foreign, oppressive and, in this way, they could naively make decisions which can ruin their future.
In my opinion, I think the experience gained with the age of older people is an important fact to help young people understand the consequences of their decisions.
So, I hope there is a dialogue between the young and the old so that our country and, then, world can keep up with progress without compromising the future of the new generations.
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