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Giovanni Boccaccio - Wikipedia Giovanni Boccaccio (UK: bəˈkætʃioʊ bə-KATCH-ee-oh, US: boʊˈkɑːtʃ (i) oʊ, bəˈ - boh-KAH-ch (ee)oh, bə-; Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 [1] – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist
Giovanni Boccaccio | Biography, Works, Decameron, Renaissance, Black . . . Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian poet and scholar, best remembered as the author of the earthy tales in the Decameron With Petrarch he laid the foundations for the humanism of the Renaissance and raised vernacular literature to the level and status of the classics of antiquity
The Decameron - Wikipedia The Decameron ( dɪˈkæmərən ; Italian: Decameron [deˈkaːmeron, dekameˈrɔn, -ˈron] or Decamerone [dekameˈroːne]), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto [ˈprentʃipe ɡaleˈɔtto, ˈprɛn-]) and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy ", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri 's Comedy
Giovanni Boccaccio - World History Encyclopedia Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an Italian poet, writer, and scholar His most famous and influential work is the Decameron, completed by 1353, in which his ten characters present 100 tales of everyday life
Boccaccio - New World Encyclopedia Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works, including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poems in the vernacular
Biography - Boccaccio Giovanni Giovanni Boccaccio (UK: bəˈkætʃioʊ , US: boʊˈkɑːtʃ (i)oʊ, bə- , Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist
Giovanni Boccaccio - Florence As It Was Long considered one of the “three crowns” of Italian medieval writers (along with Dante and Petrarch), Giovanni Boccaccio left in his wake stories of all kinds Born in 1313 as an illegitimate child of a merchant, Boccaccio first studied economics and trade in Naples before attempting a legal career
About Giovanni Boccaccio | Academy of American Poets He is known as one of the “three jewels,” of Italian literature, along with Petrarch and Dante Alighieri, as well as a founder of Renaissance Humanism Boccaccio promoted the use of the Tuscan vernacular in the written form, rather than the traditional Latin
Decameron Web | Boccaccio - Brown University Boccaccio finishes the Filocolo, a long romance divided into five books: for the first time in Italian prose it recounts the adventures of Florio, son of the king of Marmorina, and Biancifiore, a poor girl received into that court without anyone knowing of her princely Roman origins
Giovanni Boccaccio - Italian Poet, Decameron, Renaissance | Britannica Giovanni Boccaccio - Italian Poet, Decameron, Renaissance: It was probably in the years 1348–53 that Boccaccio composed the Decameron in the form in which it is read today In the broad sweep of its range and its alternately tragic and comic views of life, it is rightly regarded as his masterpiece