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Analisi della novella "Cisti fornaio" (Decameron, VI, 2)

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, ...

Technology: advantages and disadvantages

  We live in an era of strong technological development where everything is connected and every action we make lasts one second. Technology was born with the advent of Internet and, as other important innovations, has its strengths and weaknesses. Technology has had a big impact on society: it has created new work opportunities and has improved the work efficiency connecting millions and millions of people around the world using devices and online services. We can communicate in real time with our friends and relatives by sending sms, multimedia files and more other. New technologies are constantly being developed for medical sector, where research is making great progress, and simplify surgical procedures, brain and hearth analysis. Thanks to technology, some very poor and backward countries could improve their economy through the globalization of markets. However, there are some disadvantages about technology such as digital divide. It is more expensive and keeping up with the la...

The generational gap

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 a...

Let's get back our future!

The environmental issues are generated by conflictual relationship between human activities and ecosystem. Since ancient times, man has started to influence environment according to his needs, exploiting most of environmental resources.  Starting from 18th century with Industrial revolution, technological progress and population growth accelerated this phenomenon, putting the environment and ourselves at risk. The most serious environmental issues are global warming, sour rain, pollution, greenhouse effect and ozone hole. These problems lead to climate changes and disasters like earthquake, hurricane, tornado and more other.  The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomeno that if there isn't it, the Earth will be cold. But human activities release some gas (greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere to the point that lead to global warming.  Moreover, the combustion of fossil fuels as coal, methane, petroleum determines the production of other greenhouse gas. Ano...