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.

Boccaccio grew up in Florence.

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.

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.

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

Although not directly linked to the conspiracy, it was in this year that Boccaccio left Florence to reside in Certaldo, and became less involved in government affairs.

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.

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.

However, when Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313-1375 ) was commissioned by the city of Florence to write Commento di Dante which he completed c. 1374 ( before the birth of Poggio Bracciolini ), he made clear use of the Annals when he gave an account of Seneca's death directly based on the Tacitus account in Annals book 15.

* Meltzoff, S. Botticelli, Signorelli and Savonarola, Theologia Poetica and Painting from Boccaccio to Poliziano ( Florence, 1987 ).

The vulgar ( ie, spoken ) language of Florence gained prestige in the 14th century after Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca ( Petrarch ) and Giovanni Boccaccio wrote major works in it: the Divina Commedia, the Canzoniere and the Decameron.

Boccaccio became famous principally for the Italian work, Decamerone, a collection of a hundred novels, related by a party of men and women who retired to a villa near Florence to escape the plague in 1348.

The copies of Annals at Monte Cassino were likely moved to Florence by Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), a friend of da Strada, who is also credited with their discovery at Monte Cassino.

Regardless of whether the Monte Cassino manuscripts were moved to Florence by Boccaccio or dal Strada, Boccaccio made use of the Annals when he wrote Commento di Dante c. 1374, giving an account of Seneca's death directly based on the Tacitean account in Annals book 15.

It was not until Giovanni Boccaccio brought the manuscript of the Annals 11-16 and the Histories out of Monte Cassino to Florence, in the 1360s or 1370s, that Tacitus began to regain some of his old literary importance.

In addition, a number of individuals are known to have read the text or have been indirectly influenced by it, including: Vussin, Hrabanus Maurus, Hermann of Reichenau, Hugo of St. Victor, Gervase of Melkey, William of Malmesbury, Theoderich of St. Trond, Petrus Diaconus, Albertus Magnus, Filippo Villani, Jean de Montreuil, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Giovanni de Dondi, Domenico di Bandino, Niccolò Acciaioli bequeathed copy to the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Bernward of Hildesheim, and St. Thomas Aquinas.

In early-Renaissance Florence, the erotic novellas of the poet Boccaccio cause a stir and the locals are divided into the female fans of his scandalous tales and their jealous husbands.

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.

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

Boccaccio and Petrarch were also two of the most educated people in early Renaissance in the field of archaeology.

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 .’

In the early 15th century a number of glossaries appeared, such as that of Lucillo Minerbi on Boccaccio in 1535, and those of Fabrizio Luna on Aristo, Petrarca, Boccaccio and Dante in 1536.

Giovanni Boccaccio and Florentines who have fled from the plague.

The occasion of it was, he tells us ( though he is perhaps merely imitating Boccaccio ), that during the " great plague " at London in 1563 the court was at Windsor, and there on the 10 December he was dining with Sir William Cecil, secretary of state, and other ministers.

A third novelist was Giovanni Sercambi of Lucca, who after 1374 wrote a book, in imitation of Boccaccio, about a party of people who were supposed to fly from a plague and to go travelling about in different Italian cities, stopping here and there telling stories.

The Decameron, the short story collection by the Italian author Boccaccio — with its frame tale of nobles fleeing the plague and telling each other stories — had an enormous impact on French writers.

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

Boccaccio used ottava rima for a number of minor poems and, most significantly, for two of his major works, the Teseide ( 1340 ) and the Filostrato ( 1347 ).

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

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

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.

Boccaccio not only capitalizes on the tale to poke fun at the clerics of his day, but also at the simple-mindedness of some of his countrymen.

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.

Boccaccio goes on to explain that not only was she the Queen of Ethiopia and Egypt, but also the queen of Arabia.

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.

Tottel also published Thomas More's Utopia and another collection of More's writings, John Lydgate's translations from Giovanni Boccaccio, and books by William Staunford and Thomas Tusser.

The scripts of the films were also Trnka's own work, who often used works of Czech authors ( many of them related to popular folklore ), as well as classics of world literature, such as Chekhov, Boccaccio, and Shakespeare.

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 was also the first historian of women in his De mulieribus claris, and the first to tell the story of the great unfortunates in his De casibus virorum illustrium.

Tempest debuted in 1885 as Fiametta in Franz Suppé's operetta Boccaccio at the Comedy Theatre in London, where she also took the title role in Erminie by Edward Jakobowski.

He also printed Amorous Fiammetta ( 1587 ) by Giovanni Boccaccio, of which only 4 copies are known to exist.

In addition, the area was also affected by the pestilence which, recounted by Giovanni Boccaccio in his masterpiece the Decameron, spread throughout the whole of Italy.

The castle also had like guests the writers Dante Alighieri and Boccaccio.

He collaborated on some works with Camillo Boccaccino, the son of Boccaccio Boccaccino, with whom Campi may also have received training.

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.