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Giovanni Boccaccio (UK: / b ə ˈ k æ tʃ i oʊ /, US: / b oʊ ˈ k ɑː tʃ (i) oʊ, b ə-/, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian poet and scholar, best remembered as the author of the earthy tales in the Decameron. With Petrarch he laid the foundations for the humanism of the Renaissance and raised vernacular literature to the level and status of the classics of antiquity.
Oct 29, 2020 · Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian poet, writer, and scholar. His most famous and influential work is the Decameron, completed by 1353, in which his ten characters present 100 tales of everyday life.
May 23, 2018 · Giovanni Boccaccio >The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is best known for the >Decameron. For his Latin works and his role in reviving Hellenistic learning >in Florence, he may be considered one of the early humanists.
Boccaccino is a consul (or main officer) of the Arte del Cambio (the influential Guild of the moneychangers and money lenders) and in the same year he is among the City Priors, the highest elective office of the commune, for the customary two-month term.
Giovanni Boccaccio - Italian Poet, Decameron, Renaissance: It was probably in the years 1348–53 that Boccaccio composed the Decameron in the form in which it is read today. In the broad sweep of its range and its alternately tragic and comic views of life, it is rightly regarded as his masterpiece.
Giovanni Boccaccio was born in the year 1313 in Tuscany (either Certaldo or Florence) to an unknown French woman and the wealthy merchant Boccaccino di Chellino.
Giovanni Boccaccio, (born 1313, Tuscany—died Dec. 21, 1375, Certaldo, Tuscany), Italian poet and scholar. His life was full of difficulties and occasional bouts of poverty.
Jun 27, 2017 · Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313–d. 1375), along with the two other great Florentine writers, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarch, is one of the Three Crowns of Italian literature. His vast body of poetic and prose works represents a great variety of classical and medieval literary genres.
This critical guide to the complete works of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) is a perfect match for the stunning breadth of the author’s production in Latin and the vernacular. Published in the seven hundredth anniversary year of the author’s birth, the ambitious spirit of Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works responds to the ...
