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, ...
Ten days after Mary’s birth, her mother died. So, Mary grew up in an intellectual household with her father’s famous friends and among Godwin’s ideals.
Here, in 1814 she met Percy Bysshe Shelley, a poet and an ardent admirer of her father.
Percy B. Shelley was an important poet of the Romantic movement and was already
married at the time.
For this reason, her father was against their relationship and tried to keep the two lovers apart.
Therefore, when she found out she was pregnant, they ran off to Europe, but they had to return home due to lack of money.
In this period, Mary wrote History of a six weeks: Tour through part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland.
Once home, though, Shelley had to go into hiding to avoid ending up in a debtor’s prison and left Mary alone.
In 1815, Mary gave birth prematurely to a baby, who died two weeks later.
Then, Percy received a large annual retribution and the couple moved into a house on Bishopsgate Heath.
After the suicide of Percy’s wife, in 1816 Mary married Percy.
Next, the couple settled in Geneva and met Lord Byron. Here, Mary wrote her first and famous Gothic novel Frankenstein (1816-17).
This literary genre was very famous during the second half of the 18th century and first half of the 19th century. Gothic novels, in general, are set in picturesque settings featuring castles, dungeons and darkness, chosen as the scene of terrible crimes which contribute to the suspense and fear pervading the whole novel.
They are characterized by a sinister, gloomy atmosphere and supernatural events, and their main characters are usually an evil and a mysterious man who persecutes a young and innocent girl. The other characters of this novel are wanderers and supernatural events.
In 1818, Mary and Percy moved to Italy, where she gave birth to Percy Florence.
In 1822, Mary’s husband drowned during a sailing trip from Leghorn to La Spezia.
A year later, Mary returned to England, where she devoted herself totally to the writing career, in order to raise her son.
In this period she wrote The Last Man, a story of the destruction of mankind by a plague until one man has survived.
She spent the last years in the disease, probably having a cerebral tumour.
For this reason, she died in 1851.
They are characterized by a sinister, gloomy atmosphere and supernatural events, and their main characters are usually an evil and a mysterious man who persecutes a young and innocent girl. The other characters of this novel are wanderers and supernatural events.
In 1818, Mary and Percy moved to Italy, where she gave birth to Percy Florence.
In 1822, Mary’s husband drowned during a sailing trip from Leghorn to La Spezia.
A year later, Mary returned to England, where she devoted herself totally to the writing career, in order to raise her son.
In this period she wrote The Last Man, a story of the destruction of mankind by a plague until one man has survived.
She spent the last years in the disease, probably having a cerebral tumour.
For this reason, she died in 1851.
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