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, ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Devon in 1772.
When he was eight his father died and he was ent to Christ's Hospital, a charity school in London.
In 1791 he attended Cambridge University and left it in 1794 without graduating.
In 1797 Coleridge settled at Somerset where William Wordsworth lived.
This was the beginning of the intellectual collaboration between the two poets that produced Lyrical Ballads, a collection which included Coleridge's most famous poem: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The years 1799-1810, when the two poets settled in the Lake District, were full of frustration for Coleridge to the point that he took large quantities of opium and quarelled with Wordsworth.
He died in 1834.
Coleridge's poems, referred to as the "demonic poems", share the presence of the supernatural in various forms. They are all dreams of haunted souls, and behind their exotic richness and half-magical lands, we sense that mysterious forces are at play, which conduct the choices of men.
These poems maybe seen as nightmares of passivity: the characters don't act but is acted upon.
Coleridge is the perfect example of a complex Romantic personality: an unfulfilled genius who never fully realized his potential in his poems.
Against the Empiricism, he held views of the creative mind as capable of recreating the world of the senses.
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