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This article examines the works of Bono Giamboni and Brunetto Latini in light of the wider phenomenon of the vulgarization of knowledge in 13th century Tuscany. These authors write for a new type of audience, laic and urban, and they shape their teaching according to the social and political realities of urban society. They give a central place to rhetoric, which they consider – according to an anthropological conception which links the faculty of language to the social nature of man – as the basis of an ethic of civil life. Concerning Bono Giamboni, the analysis focuses on his Libro dei vizî e delle virtudi and shows that its allegorical form conveys a moral and political message, which is intended to be an answer to the crisis of social order and values. In Brunetto Latini, his rhetorical teaching in the Rettorica and the encyclopedia with political aims in the Tresor are completed by an allegorical poem, the Tesoretto, which puts the moral doctrine into the frame of a tale of initiation that exalts the importance of knowledge, the central value for our authors and for the society in which they wrote.

This article examines the works of BonoGiamboni and Brunetto Latini in light of the wider phenomenonof the vulgarization of knowledge in 13th centuryTuscany. These authors write for a new type of audience,laic and urban, and they shape their teaching accordingto the social and political realities of urban society.They give a central place to rhetoric, which they consider– according to an anthropological conception whichlinks the faculty of language to the social nature of man –as the basis of an ethic of civil life. Concerning BonoGiamboni, the analysis focuses on his Libro dei vizî edelle virtudi and shows that its allegorical form conveys amoral and political message, which is intended to be ananswer to the crisis of social order and values. In BrunettoLatini, his rhetorical teaching in the Rettorica and the encyclopediawith political aims in the Tresor are completedby an allegorical poem, the Tesoretto, which puts themoral doctrine into the frame of a tale of initiation thatexalts the importance of knowledge, the central value forour authors and for the society in which they wrote.

This volume aims to foster the dialogue between two usually distinct scholarly traditions: on the one hand, the studies revolving around cultural and political activity, as well as the didactic, theological, religious and pastoral initiatives undertaken by the Dominican Order in the urban context; on the other hand, the scholarship on the history of Florence between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, seen as a case study representative of the evolutions of late medieval communal institutions in the Italian peninsula. The essays focus on the reciprocal interactions and influences between religious and political cultures, along with those between mendicant and lay contexts.

Hauptbeschreibung: Was ist eine Gabe? Löschen Tauschcharakter und Reziprozität die Gabe aus? Gibt es eine Gabe, die nicht erwidert werden will? Gibt es einen Überschuss des Gebens über die Gabe hinaus? Der Band untersucht solche und benachbarte Fragen, die aus den einschlägigen Theoriediskussionen bekannt sind, an literarischen Modellierungen von Liebesgaben in vormodernen Texten. Im Liebesdiskurs, so scheint es, können Gaben einen besonders prekären Status erhalten: kann hier doch eine Tausch-, Substitutions- und Vergeltungslogik zur Anwendung kommen auf das, was gemeinhin als inkommensurabel