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Bookmark or Share- Giovanni Boccaccio - World History EncyclopediaGiovanni 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.
- The Decameron - WikipediaThe 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 " Divine "), is a coll...
- Boccaccio, Giovanni - Encyclopedia.comGiovanni Boccaccio >The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is best known for the >Decameron. For his Latin works and his role in reviving Hellenistic learning >in Florence, he may be considered one of the early humanists.
- Giovanni Boccaccio - Italian Poet, Decameron, RenaissanceGiovanni 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.
- 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.
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