Sociology of the Brigata: Gendered Groups in Dante, Forese, Folgore, Boccaccio — From ‘Guido, i’ vorrei’ to Griselda

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Teodolinda Baroliniaa Columbia University AbstractThis paper considers social and group dynamics in early Italian authors — in particular Forese Donati, Dante, Folgore da San Gimignano, and Boccaccio — in order to extrapolate a ‘sociology of the brigata’: not a sociology of the real brigata as experienced in the urban milieu of medieval Italy and as described by chroniclers and social historians, but a sociology of the literary brigata that resides in the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century literary imagination. The literary brigata is distinguished from its real counterpart by the ways in which it can allude to both genders and can even bring together the genders in social groups, creating a non-normative and highly provocative discursive space.

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