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oapen-20.500.12657-582972022-09-16T03:14:28Z Chapter Ira e compassione. Fonti aristotelico-tomiste di Decameron VIII 7 Pascale, Miriam Decameron intertextuality passions compassion wrath. bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies 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? 2022-09-15T20:07:29Z 2022-09-15T20:07:29Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220915_9788855182362_93 2704-5919 9788855182362 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58297 ita Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 978-88-5518-236-2_7.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-236-2_7 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.07 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? 10.36253/978-88-5518-236-2.07 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855182362 219 14 Florence open access
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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?
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