The article explores the figure of the “good bandit,” connecting representations of the historical personage Ghino di Tacco in late-medieval Italian literature with the bandits in Washington Irving’s travel tales. Ghino di Tacco was a notorious bandit, known for raiding pilgrims and travelers in thirteenth-century Tuscany. Nevertheless, according to literary sources such as Boccaccio's Decameron, the infamous raider left his victims unharmed and with the means necessary to complete their journeys. Sources also indicate that Ghino di Tacco became a bandit because of factional disputes and was eventually pardoned by Pope Boniface VIII for healing the Abbot of Cluny. Similarly, the fictional bandits in Irving’s Tales of a Traveller (1824) are revealed to be men of moral standing, forced into a violent life of banditry in response to the excesses of nineteenth-century Italy’s ruling classes. His tales redeem the figure of the bandit from crude one-dimensional treatments common in the works of English writers such as Ann Radcliffe. Pivoting from established proposals that have characterized bandits as either criminals or revolutionaries, this article argues that, for Boccaccio as with Irving, the figure of the good bandit functions as a symbol of reconciliation and social reintegration.

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“乐队的队长是加兰特·乌莫”：从薄伽丘到华盛顿·欧文的好强盗

文章探讨了“好强盗”的形象，将中世纪晚期意大利文学中的历史人物吉诺·迪塔科的表现与华盛顿欧文旅行故事中的强盗联系起来。Ghino di Tacco 是一个臭名昭著的强盗，以在 13 世纪的托斯卡纳袭击朝圣者和旅行者而闻名。尽管如此，根据薄伽丘的十日谈等文学资料，臭名昭著的袭击者让他的受害者安然无恙，并为他们提供了完成旅程所需的手段。消息来源还表明，Ghino di Tacco 由于派系纠纷而成为一名强盗，最终被教皇博尼法斯八世赦免，因为他治愈了克鲁尼修道院院长。同样，欧文的《旅行者的故事》中虚构的土匪（1824 年）被揭露为道德高尚的人，被迫过着暴力的土匪生活，以应对 19 世纪意大利统治阶级的暴行。他的故事从安拉德克利夫等英国作家的作品中常见的粗糙的一维处理中拯救了强盗的形象。本文从将土匪定性为罪犯或革命者的既定建议出发，认为对于薄伽丘和欧文一样，好土匪的形象是和解和重新融入社会的象征。