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

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.

Boccaccio married Margherita di Gian Donato de ' Martoli in 1314 ( when he was just one year old ) who bore him a legitimate son, Francesco.

This did not prevent him selling the Marlboroughs ' Boccaccio for a mere £ 875, and his own library in over 4000 lots.

* Gésippe-drawn from Boccaccio: a young man has his friend replace him in the marriage bed.

In the last part of the 14th century after Boccaccio died a Donato degli Albanzani had a copy that his friend Boccaccio gave him and translated it from Latin into Italian.

The style of Boccaccio tends to the imitation of Latin, but in him prose first took the form of elaborated art.

The Divina Commedia was sent him by Boccaccio, when he was an old man, and he confessed that he never read it.

A plot is hatched by the husbands to chase Boccaccio from the city and have him locked up.

Among the prose works are Discorsi degli animali, imitations of Oriental and Aesopian fables, of which there are two French translations ; Dialogo delle bellezze delle donne, also translated into French ; Ragionamenti amorosi, a series of short tales in the manner of Boccaccio, rivalling him in elegance and in licentiousness ; Discacciamento delle nuove lettere, a controversial piece against Giangiorgio Trissino's proposal to introduce new letters into the Italian alphabet ; a free version or adaptation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius, which became a favorite book and passed through many editions ; and two comedies, I Lucidi, an imitation of the Menaechmi of Plautus, and La Trinuzia, which in some points resembles the Calandria of Cardinal Bibbiena.

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.

The same name was also used by Florentines, such as the poet Fazio degli Uberti ( circa 1309 – 1367 ), the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani ( c. 1275 – 1348 ), and Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), who wrote that the Brenta River rises from the mountains of Carantania, a land in the Alps dividing Italy from Germany.

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

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 ).

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

At the same time as he was writing On Famous Women, Boccaccio also compiled a collection of biographies of famous men, De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ( On the Fates of Famous Men ).

Boccaccio had the same enthusiastic love of antiquity and the same worship for the new Italian literature as Petrarch.

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.

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

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.

The contemporary writer Giovanni Boccaccio has left us with the following description of Queen Joanna in his On Famous Women: " Joanna, queen of Sicily and Jerusalem, is more renowned than other woman of her time for lineage, power, and character ".

Over and above this, in the Decamerone, Boccaccio is a delineator of character and an observer of passions.

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 ).

Lady Fortune with the Wheel of Fortune in a medieval manuscript of a work by Giovanni Boccaccio | Boccaccio ; Consolation of Philosophy was responsible for the popularity of the goddess of Fortune and the wheel of fortune in the Middle Ages

Giovanni Boccaccio provided a digest of what was known of Circe during the Middle Ages in his De claris mulieribus ( Famous Women, 1361-1362 ).

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

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.

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.

Giovanni Boccaccio and Florentines who have fled from the plague.

* Consoli, Joseph P. ( 1992 ) Giovanni Boccaccio: an Annotated Bibliography.

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