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, ...

He received a practical education in accordance with Puritan values in Newton Green Academy.
In 1692 Defoe went bankrupt, paying for the economic disaster even with prison. He managed to revive his financial condition with disparate activities: a brick factory, a consulting service for the government, and some publications as an essayist. Defoe's essays, of a political and economic nature, contained cutting-edge recommendations: they suggested, among other things, the creation of a central bank (which became a reality in 1694), a pension system, insurance companies, and new bankruptcy laws.
After the death of William III (1702), Defoe was arrested on charges of defaming the Church of England in his essay The Shortest Way with the Dissenters. As soon as he was taken prisoner, his wife took the opportunity to divorce and keep the children, given the impossibility for Defoe to raise them.
His political inclinations, Tory or Whig, changed according to hopes of preference and enrichment, and it seems he served as a spy for both parties.
During his years in jail, he began to write the novel The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders which was published in 1722. The plot is focused on a poor girl who makes a way for herself in the world thanks to her beauty and her cleverness.
Between 1705 and 1707 he moved to Scotland and in 1719 he achieved success as a novelist with the story of a shipwrecked sailor who for 28 years manages to survive alone on a desert island: Robinson Crusoe.
He also wrote in prose, essays, travel books and pamphlets.
He founded The Review, a periodical in two different editions: London and Edinburgh. It is destined to last ten years and to enter the history of English journalism.
Despite all his literary and commercial efforts, in 1731 he ended his life in Moorfields, near London, alone and heavily in debt.
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