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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (UK: /bəˈkæi/, US: /bˈkɑː(i), bə-/, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375)[nb 1] 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"[nb 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.

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Giovanni Boccaccio

16 June 1313
Certaldo, Republic of Florence (now in Tuscany, Italy)

21 December 1375
(aged 62)
Certaldo, Republic of Florence (now in Tuscany, Italy)

Writer, poet

From 1341

Boccaccino di Chellino (father)
Margherita de' Mardoli (stepmother)

Petrarch (friend)

His most notable works are The Decameron, a collection of short stories which in the following centuries was a determining element for the Italian literary tradition, especially after Pietro Bembo elevated the Boccaccian style to a model of Italian prose in the sixteenth century, and On Famous Women. He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in Tuscan vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue which differed from that of his contemporaries, medieval writers who usually followed formulaic models for character and plot. The influence of Boccaccio's works was not limited to the Italian cultural scene but extended to the rest of Europe, exerting influence on authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer,[3] a key figure in English literature, and the later writers Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega and classical theatre in Spain.


Boccaccio is considered one of the "Three Crowns" of Italian literature along with Dante Alighieri and Petrarch.[4] He is remembered for being one of the precursors of humanism, of which he helped lay the foundations in the city of Florence, in conjunction with the activity of his friend and teacher Petrarch. He was the one who initiated Dante's criticism and philology: Boccaccio devoted himself to copying codices of the Divine Comedy and was a promoter of Dante's work and figure.


In the twentieth century, Boccaccio was the subject of critical-philological studies by Vittore Branca and Giuseppe Billanovich, and his Decameron was transposed to the big screen by the director and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini.

(1342)

Amorosa visione

(1367–1369)

Buccolicum carmen

(1334–1337)

Caccia di Diana

(Ninfale d'Ameto, 1341–1342)

Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine

(around 1365, this date is disputed)

Corbaccio

(within 1341–1345)

De Canaria

(c. 1360). Facsimile of 1620 Paris ed., 1962, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1005-9.

De Casibus Virorum Illustrium

(1361, revised up to 1375)

De mulieribus claris

(1349–52, revised 1370–1371)

The Decameron

(1343–1344)

Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta

(1373–1374)

Esposizioni sopra la Comedia di Dante

(1336–1339)

Filocolo

(1335 or 1340)

Filostrato

(1360, revised up to 1374)

Genealogia deorum gentilium libri

(within 1344–46, this date is disputed)

Ninfale fiesolano

(finished 1374)

Rime

(before 1341)

Teseida delle nozze di Emilia

(1357, title revised to De origine vita studiis et moribus viri clarissimi Dantis Aligerii florentini poetae illustris et de operibus compositis ab eodem)

Trattatello in laude di Dante

(within 1351–1356)

Zibaldone Magliabechiano

See Consoli's bibliography for an exhaustive listing.[20]

Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer

Bartlett, Kenneth R. (1992). "Florence in the Renaissance". The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: A Sourcebook. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath.  0-669-20900-7.

ISBN

Blanc, Ludwig G. (1844). "Die Eigennamen" [The proper names]. [Italian language grammar] (in German). Halle: Carl August Schwetschke und Sohn.

Grammatik der italienischen Sprache

Branca, Vittore (1977). (in Italian). G. C. Sansoni. ISBN 978-88-383-6502-7.

Giovanni Boccaccio: profilo biografico

Cataldi, Pietro; Donnarumma, Raffaele; Luperini, Romano; Marchese, Franco; Marchiani, Lidia (1998). La scrittura e l'interpretazione : Storia e antologia della letteratura italiana nel quadro della civiltà europea [Writing and interpretation: History and anthology of Italian literature in the framework of European civilization.] (in Italian). Vol. 1st. Palermo: Palumbo.  88-8020-225-1.

ISBN

Çoban, R. V. (2020). The Manzikert Battle and Sultan Alp Arslan with European Perspective in the 15st Century in the Miniatures of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De Casibus Virorum Illustrium"s 226 and 232. French Manuscripts in Bibliothèque Nationale de France. S. Karakaya ve V. Baydar (Ed.), in 2nd International Muş Symposium Articles Book (pp. 48–64). Muş: Muş Alparslan University. Archived 18 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine

Source

Patrick, James A.(2007). Renaissance And Reformation. Marshall Cavendish Corp.  9780761476504.

ISBN

On Famous Women, edited and translated by Virginia Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001  0-674-00347-0 (Latin text and English translation)

ISBN

The Decameron,  0-451-52866-2

ISBN

The Life of Dante, translated by Vincenzo Zin Bollettino. New York: Garland, 1990  1-84391-006-3

ISBN

The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta, edited and translated [from the Italian] by Mariangela Causa-Steindler and Thomas Mauch; with an introduction by Mariangela Causa-Steindler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990  0-226-06276-7.

ISBN

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Works by Giovanni Boccaccio in eBook form

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Works by Giovanni Boccaccio

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Works by Giovanni Boccaccio

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Giovanni Boccaccio

, ed. (1911). "Boccaccio, Giovanni" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Chisholm, Hugh

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Giovanni Boccaccio

at Somni

Genealogie deorum gentilium Johannis Boccacii de Certaldo liber

at Somni

De mulieribus claris