1. Giovanni Boccaccio Biography Giovanni Boccaccio biography and related resources. Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 December 21, 1375) was a Florentine author and poet, the greatest of Petrarch's disciples, an http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Boccaccio_Giovanni.html

Biography Base Home Link To Us Search Biographies: Browse Biographies A B C D ... Z Giovanni Boccaccio Biography Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 - December 21, 1375) was a Florentine author and poet, the greatest of Petrarch's disciples, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poems in the vernacular. The exact details of his birth are uncertain. He was almost certainly a bastard, the son of a Florentine banker and an unknown woman. An early biographer claimed his mother was a Parisien and that the city was also the place of his birth, this has been largely depreciated as a romanticism and his place of birth is more likely to have been in Tuscany, perhaps in Certaldo, the town of his father. Boccaccio grew up in Florence. His father was working for the Compagnia dei Bardi and in the 1320s married Margherita del Mardoli, of an illustrious family. It is believed Boccaccio was tutored by Giovanni Mazzuoli and received from him an early introduction to the works of Dante. Around 1327 Boccaccio moved to Naples when his father was appointed to head the Neopolitan branch of his bank, Boccaccio was apprenticed to the bank and spent six years there. It was a trade for which he had no affinity and he eventually persuaded his father to let him study law at the Studium in the city. However, his father had introduced him into the Neopolitan nobility and the French-influenced court of Robert the Wise. Boccaccio had become a friend of fellow-Florentine Nicola Acciaiuoli and benefitted from his influence as lover of Catherine of Valois, later counsellor to Queen Joanna and the "Grand Seneschal".

2. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Italian Writer. (13131375) Italian writer. Giovanni Boccaccio is most famous for The Decameron (1353), which was first translated into English in 1620. http://classiclit.about.com/od/boccacciogiovanni/Boccaccio_Giovanni.htm

zWASL=1 zGL='0';zGR='ca-about-radlink'; zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Education Classic Literature Classic Literature Search Classic Literature Filed In: A-to-Z Writers A-to-Z Writers B - Writers - Last Names (1313-1375) Italian writer. Giovanni Boccaccio is most famous for "The Decameron" (1353), which was first translated into English in 1620. Books About The Plague The Plague has been a subject for literary writings for centuries. Writers from Giovanni Boccaccio to Albert Camus have used plagues and other diseases for dramatic and literary effect. Here's a list of just a few books that use the subject of the Plague. Giovanni Boccaccio - Who's Who in Medieval History You probably know he wrote the masterpiece The Decameron, and that his work helped raise literature in the vernacular to the respectability of classical texts. zSB(3,3) Boccaccio: The Ultimate Survivor Was Il Decamerone the precursor to reality-based TV shows? Regarded as a masterpiece and a model for Italian classical prose, Boccaccio's influence on Renaissance literature was enormous and continues even in contemporary times. Free Classic Literature Newsletter!

3. Boccaccio, Giovanni (Open Library) Books by Boccaccio, Giovanni Decamerone 292 editions first published in 1516 Read http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2055261A/Boccaccio_Giovanni

4. Giovanni Boccaccio - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Boccaccio, Giovanni Alternative names Short description Writer, humanist Date of birth June 16, 1313 Place of birth Tuscany Date of death December 21, 1375 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search "Boccaccio" redirects here. For other uses, see Boccaccio (disambiguation) Giovanni Boccaccio Born Certaldo Died Certaldo Occupation Renaissance humanist author poet Nationality Italian Period Early Renaissance Giovanni Boccaccio [bokˈkattʃo] ) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch , an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron On Famous Women , and his poetry in the Italian vernacular . Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of virtually all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot. Contents Biography Early life Mature years Children ... edit Biography The exact details of his birth are uncertain. A number of sources state that he was born in Paris and that his mother was a Parisian, but others denounce this as a romanticism by the earliest biographers. In this case his birthplace was possibly in Tuscany , perhaps in Certaldo , the town of his father.

5. Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian Poet And Scholar) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Facts about Boccaccio, Giovanni Italian literature, as discussed in Britannica Compton's Encyclopedia Italian literature Facts about Boccaccio, Giovanni Latin literature, as http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/70836/Giovanni-Boccaccio

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6. Giovanni Boccaccio - Biografia Vita e opere dell autore, con critica letteraria al Decamerone. http://www.italialibri.net/autori/boccacciog.html

NARRATIVA POESIA SAGGISTICA DOSSIER ... RIVISTA Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Dante e Petrarca Rime , la Caccia di Diana , il Filostrato , il Filocolo , il Teseida (terminato poi a Firenze). Nel 1340-'41, in seguito al fallimento della Compagnia dei Bardi, richiamato dal padre torna a Firenze a una vita di ristrettezze economiche. Compone la Commedia delle Ninfe Fiorentine (1341-'42), l' Amorosa visione (1342), l' Elegia di madonna Fiammetta (1343-'44), piena di rimpianto per il mondo napoletano, ed infine il Ninfale fiesolano Decameron De genealogiis deorum gentilium ), sulla geografia ( De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, et de nominibus maris De claris mulieribus ), e maschili ( De casibus virorum illustrium Nel 1355 o nel 1365 compone il Corbaccio . Forti scrupoli morali lo portano a meditare persino la distruzione del Decameron Nel 1362, e poi ancora nel 1370, si reca a Napoli nella speranza di trovarvi una decorosa sistemazione, ma entrambe le volte torna a Certaldo deluso e amareggiato. Nel 1373 riceve l'incarico da parte del Comune di Firenze di commentare pubblicamente la Commedia Inferno Stanco, malato e angustiato dalle solite ristrettezze economiche, si ritira a Certaldo, dove muore il 21 dicembre 1375, un anno e mezzo dopo il suo amico Petrarca.

7. Boccaccio, Giovanni Definition Of Boccaccio, Giovanni In The Free Online Encyclo Boccaccio, Giovanni (jōv n`nē), 1313–75, Italian poet and storyteller, author of the Decameron. Born in Paris, the illegitimate son of a Tuscan merchant and a French woman, he http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Boccaccio, Giovanni

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10. Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375 A brief biographical sketch of Giovanni Boccaccio (13131375) Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375 The Italian poet, Giovanni Boccaccio was most probably born in Tuscany, the http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/boccaccio.html

Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375 The Italian poet, Giovanni Boccaccio was most probably born in Tuscany, the illegitimate son of a merchant of Certaldo, who launched him on a commercial career, during which he spent some time at Paris. As a young man, Boccaccio abandoned commerce and the study of canon law. At Naples he began to write stories in verse and prose, mingled in courtly society, and fell in love with the noble lady whom he made famous under the name of Fiammetta. Up to 1350 Boccaccio lived at Florence and at Naples, producing prose tales, pastorals, and poems. The Teseide is a version in ottava rima of the medieval romance of Palamon and Arcite, which was partly translated by Chaucer in the Knight's Tale , and is the subject of Fletcher's Two Noble Kinsmen . The Filostrato deals with the loves of Troilus and Cressida, also in great part translated by Chaucer. After 1350 Boccaccio became a diplomat entrusted with important public affairs, and a scholar devoted to the new learning. During this period, in which he formed a lasting friendship with Francesco Petrarch, Boccaccio, as Florentine ambassador, visited Rome, Ravenna, Avignon and Brandenburg. In 1358 he completed his great work, the

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13. Giovanni Boccaccio — Infoplease.com Encyclopedia Boccaccio, Giovanni. Boccaccio, Giovanni (jōv n'nē) , 1313–75, Italian poet and storyteller, author of the Decameron. Born in Paris, the illegitimate son of a Tuscan http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0808047.html

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17. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giovanni Boccaccio Biography and overview of the author s major works, from the Encyclopedia of 1911. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02607a.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... B > Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio Italian novelist, b. in Paris , 1313; d. in Certaldo , 21 December, 1375. His father, a merchant from Certaldo and a man of some prominence in Florence , had gone into business in Paris . Shortly afterwards the elder Boccaccio deserted Giannina, the mother of Giovanni, and brought the boy to Florence where he put him to school until he was ten years old, when he took him into business. In 1327 Giovanni was sent to Naples to study law . But he gave himself up almost entirely to literature , and became intimately acquainted with some of the most prominent men and women of the court of Anjou . It is supposed that it was in 1334 that he saw for the first time Maria d'Acquino, a married woman and natural daughter of King Robert. She was the inspiration of his earlier works, and the heroine of whom he tells under the name of Fiammetta . In 1340 we find him back in Florence ; on the death of his father in 1348, he became the guardian of a younger brother. He held certain public offices in Florence and was entrusted with diplomatic missions to Padua , the Romagna, Avignon , and elsewhere. After 1350 began his friendship with

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19. Decameron Web A hypermedia project dedicated to the study and teaching of the work. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml

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20. Boccaccio, Giovanni - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–1375) Italian writer and poet. He is chiefly known for the collection of tales called the Decameron (1348–53). Equally at home with tragic and comic http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Boccaccio, Giovanni

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