The uncertainty of daily survival has been seen as creating a general mood of morbidity, influencing people to " live for the moment ", as illustrated by Giovanni Boccaccio in The Decameron ( 1353 ).

Giovanni Boccaccio (; 1313 – 21 December 1375 ) 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 began work on the Decameron around 1349.

Boccaccio revised and rewrote the Decameron in 1370-1371.

Certain sources also see a conversion of Boccaccio by Petrarch from the open humanist of the Decameron to a more ascetic style, closer to the dominant fourteenth century ethos.

" Boccaccio reading from the Decameron to Queen Johanna of Naples ", by Egide Charles Gustave Wappers | Gustaf Wappers ( 1803-1874 ), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Later in the 14th century Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ) shows us the " carola " in Florence in the Decameron ( about 1350-1353 ) which has several passages describing men and women dancing to their own singing or accompanied by musicians.

Boccaccio, though, may have directly taken the tale from The Seven Wise Masters, which, although oriental in origin, was widely circulating in Latin at the time the Decameron was written.

* The Decameron is finished by Giovanni Boccaccio.

* Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio ( two volumes ) ( 1949 ) translator

Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), author of The Decameron ( 1353 )— one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348 ; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre ( 1492 – 1549 ), Marguerite de Valois, et.

Guy appears as main character in a tale of Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, where the censure of a Gascon lady converts the King of Cyprus from a churlish to an honourable temper.

They belong to the same genre as Boccaccio ’ s Decameron and Marguerite de Navarre ’ s Heptameron.

** Giovanni Boccaccio – The Decameron

* Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio

It was praised as early as 1348 in the writings of Boccaccio ; in the Decameron, he invents ‘ a mountain, all of grated Parmesan cheese ’, on which ‘ dwell folk that do nought else but make macaroni and ravioli, and boil them in capon's broth, and then throw them down to be scrambled for ; and hard by flows a rivulet of Vernaccia, the best that ever was drunk, and never a drop of water therein .’

Another major influence on Shakespeare was the story of the intimate friendship of Titus and Gisippus as told in Thomas Elyot's The Boke named the Governour in 1531 ( the same story is told in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, but verbal similarities between The Two Gentlemen and The Governor suggest it was Elyot's work Shakespeare used as his primary source, not Boccaccio's ).

Accounts of Renaissance literature usually begin with Petrarch ( best known for the elegantly polished vernacular sonnet sequence of the Canzoniere and for the craze for book collecting that he initiated ) and his friend and contemporary Boccaccio ( author of the Decameron ).

From the medieval period, we have the Decameron ( 1353 ) by the Italian Giovanni Boccaccio ( made into a film by Pasolini ) which features tales of lechery by monks and the seduction of nuns from convents.

Treatise on the Astrolabe addressed to his son Lowys AD 1391. As the Franklin says in his prologue, his story is in the form of a Breton lai, although it is in fact based on a work by the Italian poet and author Boccaccio ( Filocolo 1336 retold in the 1350s as the 5th tale on the 10th day of the Decameron ) in which a young knight called Tarolfo falls in love with a lady married to another knight, extracts a promise to satisfy his desire if he can create a flowering Maytime garden in winter, meets a magician Tebano who performs the feat using spells, but releases her from the rash promise when he learns of her husband's noble response.

The tale also shows the influence of Boccaccio ( Decameron: 7th day, 9th tale ), Deschamps ', Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris ( translated into English by Chaucer ), Andreas Capellanus, Statius and Cato.

It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio.

Several of them were reworked by Giovanni Boccaccio for the Decameron and by Geoffrey Chaucer for his Canterbury Tales.

Boccaccio tells a version of the same tale in his " Filocolo " in the Decameron.

Pandarus appears in Il Filostrato by Giovanni Boccaccio, in which he plays the role of a go-between in the relationship of his cousin Criseyde and the Trojan prince Troilus, the younger brother of Paris and Hector.

Chaucers ' source was Il Filostrato by Boccaccio, which in turn derives from a 12th-century French poet, Benoit de Siante-Maure Theodore Morrison, " The Portable Chaucer ," The Viking Press, 1949., p. 363.

It is Boccaccio who makes the decisive shift in the character's name in Il Filostrato.

Boccaccio for example, in his Il Filostrato, mixes the tradition of Cupid's arrow with the Provençal emphasis on the eyes as the birthplace of love: " Nor did he ( Troilus ) who was so wise shortly before ... perceive that Love with his darts dwelt within the rays of those lovely eyes ... nor notice the arrow that sped to his heart.

The first known version is from Benoît de Sainte-Maure's poem Roman de Troie, but Chaucer's principal source appears to have been Boccaccio who re-wrote the tale in his Il Filostrato.

Boccaccio provides one of the most memorable examples in his Il Filostrato, where he mixes the tradition of love at first sight, the eye's darts, and the metaphor of Cupid's arrow: " Nor did he ( Troilus ) who was so wise shortly before ... perceive that Love with his darts dwelt within the rays of those lovely eyes ... nor notice the arrow that sped to his heart.

Boccaccio also uses two other terms for contemporary dances, ridda and ballonchio, both of which refer to round dances with singing.

However, Boccaccio's version is unique in that the husband in the tale preserves both his honor and that of his wife, and emphasis on " keeping up appearances " that is distinct of the Renaissance merchant class, to which Boccaccio belonged.

Dante and Boccaccio are both said to have preached from the pulpit.

Probably Boccaccio made use both of written and of oral sources.

Boccaccio features Buonamico along with his friends and fellow painters Calandrino and Bruno in several tales ( Day VIII, tales 3, 6, and 9 ; Day IX, tales 3 and 5 ).

The works of Petrarch first displayed the new interest in the intellectual values of the Classical world in the early 14th century and the romance of this era as rediscovered in the Renaissance period can be seen expressed by Boccaccio.

* 1375 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer ( b. 1313 )

Condemned as a “ public sinner ” for La Dolce Vita, Fellini responded with The Temptations of Doctor Antonio, a segment in the omnibus Boccaccio ' 70.

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.

Giovanni Villani, a contemporary of Boccaccio and chronicler, states that he was born in Paris as a consequence of an illicit relation but others denounce this as a romanticism by the earliest biographers.

Boccaccio grew up in Florence.

It is believed Boccaccio was tutored by Giovanni Mazzuoli and received from him an early introduction to the works of Dante.

In 1326 Boccaccio moved to Naples with the family when his father was appointed to head the Neapolitan branch of his bank.

Boccaccio was apprenticed to the bank, but it was a trade for which he had no affinity.

For the next six years Boccaccio studied canon law there.

Boccaccio became a friend of fellow Florentine Niccolò Acciaioli, and benefited from his influence as the administrator, and perhaps the lover, of Catherine of Valois-Courtenay, widow of Philip I of Taranto.

It seems Boccaccio enjoyed law no more than banking, but his studies allowed him the opportunity to study widely and make good contacts with fellow scholars.

In Naples, Boccaccio began what he considered his true vocation, poetry.

Boccaccio returned to Florence in early 1341, avoiding the plague in that city of 1340, but also missing the visit of Petrarch to Naples in 1341.

Although dissatisfied with his return to Florence, Boccaccio continued to work, producing Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine ( also known as Ameto ) a mix of prose and poems, in 1341, completing the fifty canto allegorical poem Amorosa visione in 1342, and Fiammetta in 1343.

Giovanni Boccaccio and Florentines who have fled from the plague.

From 1347, Boccaccio spent much time in Ravenna, seeking new patronage, and despite his claims, it is not certain whether he was present in plague-ravaged Florence.

His father died in 1349 and as head of the family Boccaccio was forced into a more active role.

From 1350, Boccaccio, although less of a scholar, became closely involved with Italian humanism and also with the Florentine government.

The meeting between the two was extremely fruitful and they were friends from then on, Boccaccio calling Petrarch his teacher and magister.

Petrarch at that time encouraged Boccaccio to study classical Greek and Latin literature.

They met again in Padua in 1351, Boccaccio on an official mission to invite Petrarch to take a chair at the university in Florence.