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

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.

Giovanni Boccaccio and Florentines who have fled from the plague.

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

Despite the Pagan beliefs at its core, Boccaccio believed that much could be learned from antiquity.

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.

He returned to work for the Florentine government in 1365, undertaking a mission to Pope Urban V. When the papacy returned to Rome from Avignon in 1367, Boccaccio was again sent to Urban, offering congratulations.

Petrarch then dissuaded Boccaccio from burning his own works and selling off his personal library, letters, books, and manuscripts.

In the 1340s, Violente was born in Ravenna, where Boccaccio was a guest of Ostasio I da Polenta from about 1345 through 1346.

Illustration from The Fall of Princes by John Lydgate ( which is a translation of De Casibus Virorum Illustribus by Giovanni Boccaccio ) depicting " the skyn of Julyan ".

He encouraged and advised Leontius Pilatus's translation of Homer from a manuscript purchased by Boccaccio, although he was severely critical of the result.

Petrarch confessed to Boccaccio that he had never read the Commedia, remarks Contini, wondering whether this was true or Petrarch wanted to distance himself from Dante.

Boccaccio could have possibly also taken the tale from a French fabliau, " L ' Evesque qui benit sa maitresse " (" The bishop who blesses his mistress ").

Boccaccio took this story directly from Cento Novelle Antiche, in which the male character is also the King of Cyprus.

There is no agreement on its origin, probably because of the very eclectic nature of the plot, which may have been pieced together from various sources by Boccaccio.

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.

Lauretta's tale of the elaborate ruses that an abbot undertakes to enjoy Ferondo's wife was probably taken by Boccaccio from a French fabliau by Jean de Boves called.

Boccaccio may have taken the tale from an 11th century French version.

However, the tale was a widespread one and Boccaccio could have taken it from any number of sources or even oral tradition.

In it Boccaccio states that he heard it from an old woman who claimed it was a true story and heard it as a child.

Although we will never know if Boccaccio really did hear the story from an old woman or not ( it is possible ), the story is certainly not true.

Filostrato narrates this tale, which Boccaccio certainly took from Apuleius's The Golden Ass, the same source as tale V, 10.

Chaucer borrowed from the same fabliau as Boccaccio did.

Filomena narrates this story, which Boccaccio may have taken from Alphonsus's " Disciplina clericalis.

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.

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.

* 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 ).

Boccaccio ( in his Decameron ) and Franco Sacchetti ( in his Il trecentonovelle ) both describe Buonamico as being a practical joker.

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.