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16th-century portrait of Boccaccio. Giovanni Boccaccio (UK: / b ə ˈ k æ tʃ i oʊ /, US: / b oʊ ˈ k ɑː tʃ (i) oʊ, b ə-/, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.
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.
Oct 29, 2020 · 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.
- Mark Cartwright
Giovanni, with greater freedom, pursues his humanistic interests in literature as is attested by his first essays in Latin (the Elegia di Costanza and the Allegoria mitologica, both certainly composed before 1334) and his first vernacular poetry.
Jun 27, 2017 · Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313–d. 1375), along with the two other great Florentine writers, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarch, is one of the Three Crowns of Italian literature. His vast body of poetic and prose works represents a great variety of classical and medieval literary genres.
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.
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Giovanni Boccaccio, (born 1313, Tuscany—died Dec. 21, 1375, Certaldo, Tuscany), Italian poet and scholar. His life was full of difficulties and occasional bouts of poverty. His early works include The Love Afflicted ( c. 1336), a prose work in five books, and The Book of Theseus ( c. 1340), an ambitious epic of 12 cantos.
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