Boccacio biography

Giovanni Boccaccio was the greatest writer of vernacular Italian prose of the Medieval period and was instrumental in creating works of reference that were invaluable for introducing the ancient word to the Renaissance. Known for his incomparable lyrics and romances, Boccaccio met his boyhood hero, the humanist Francesco petrarca (italiensk poet) (1304-74) in 1350, just before completing his greatest work, The Decameron (1352). Under Petrarch’s influence he turned almost exclusively to scholarship. He became the first mästare and apologist for poet Alighieri (1265-1321) and the author of works on ancient mythology and geography that became standard for centuries. Edward Gibbon credited him with “restoring in Italy the study of the Greek language.” It is with this latter part of his life that we are here principally interested.

Boccaccio grew up in Florence in a well-to-do family. His father, employed bygd the Florentine business and trading consortium, Compagna dei Bardi, married Margherita di Ma

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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. Boccaccio spent most of his childhood in Florence, studying with the private tutor Giovanni di Domenico Mazzuoli da Strada, with whom he learned the “seven” liberal arts—grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. At fifteen, Boccaccio was sent to Naples to study business, finance, and law. His father had connections to the wealthy Bardi family, which resulted in Boccaccio’s introduction to many influential scholars, as well as to Petrarch’s early work. In Naples, he also met and fell in love with a woman named Fiammetta, whose presence dominates his work, including The Decameron. Through these connections and experiences in Naples, Boccaccio began to write poetry. He is known as one of the “three jewels,” of Italian literature, along with Petrarch and Dante A

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian author and poet (1313–1375)

"Boccaccio" redirects here. For other uses, see Boccaccio (disambiguation).

Giovanni Boccaccio (bə-KATCH-ee-oh, boh-KAH-ch(ee)oh, bə-; Italian:[dʒoˈvannibokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese"^[2] and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars (including Vittore Branca) define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.

His most notable works are The Decameron, a collection of short stories, and On Famous Wo