Ira e compassione. Fonti aristotelico-tomiste di Decameron VIII 7-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Ira e compassione. Fonti aristotelico-tomiste di Decameron VIII 7

Published:2020 Issue: Volume: Page:115-128
ISSN:2704-6478
Container-title:Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2019
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Author:

Pascale Miriam¹

Affiliation:

1. University of Basilicata, IT

Abstract

This essay aims to examine the philosophic sources behind the representation of passions in Boccaccio’s tale of the scholar and the widow (Decameron VIII 7). If the definition of anger is attributable to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, I believe that it is possible to assume that the description of compassion, only mentioned in the moral treatise, derives instead from the Aristotle’s Rhetoric, where compassion is seen as a passion opposed to a kind of wrath, that is, indignation. The paper also investigates Boccaccio’s reception of the Latin translation of Aristotle’ Rhetoric. Did Boccaccio have direct knowledge of the Aristotelian text? Or had it been mediated to him by Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae?

Publisher

Firenze University Press

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