Giovanni Boccaccio Research Paper
Giovanni Boccaccio
“While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.” A famous quote written by Giovanni Boccaccio in his famous work ‘The Decameron’. An italian poet and scholar that helped develop the foundations of humanism and vernacular literature. Without him, the history of Italian Renaissance’s literacy would be unclear. With his famous poems and novels, he inspired many future writers like Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer.
Giovanni Boccaccio’s birth details are unknown. Some sources say that he was born in Florence close to a village called Certaldo where his family were born. However, Giovanni Villani, someone close to Boccaccio argued that he was born in Paris. He was …show more content…
Worst of all, the city was already hurt before, because of the overthrow of Walter of Brienne. Which lessens the influence between the nobility and the wealthier merchant classes. During this time, no one was certain if he was present in the plague-raved Florence. Instead he spent much of his time in the city of Ravenna seeking new patronage. In the middle of the black death, his stepmother died and shortly afterwards his father died as well. This caused Boccaccio to have an active role as head of the …show more content…
The Decameron was his most famous work that contained a collections of novellas and hundred tales told by a group of seven women and three men that lived outside Florence, trying to escape the Black Death that surrounded the city. He developed the Decameron after his experience in 1348 with the Black Death and finished it around 1353. The various tales in his book ranged from erotic to tragic. It provided a document of life during that time and it is considered to be a masterpiece of the Italian prose.
From 1350 Boccaccio became involved with Italian humanism and the Florentine government. He was asked to greet Francesco Petrarch. During their meeting, everything went well. Boccaccio started calling Petrarch his teacher and Minister and was encouraged to study classical Greek and Latin literature. Boccaccio then began working on his first edition of Genealogia Deorum Gentilium. One of the key reference of classical mythology that remained for the next 400 years. It’s purpose was to extend defense for the studies of ancient literature and
“While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.” A famous quote written by Giovanni Boccaccio in his famous work ‘The Decameron’. An italian poet and scholar that helped develop the foundations of humanism and vernacular literature. Without him, the history of Italian Renaissance’s literacy would be unclear. With his famous poems and novels, he inspired many future writers like Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer.
Giovanni Boccaccio’s birth details are unknown. Some sources say that he was born in Florence close to a village called Certaldo where his family were born. However, Giovanni Villani, someone close to Boccaccio argued that he was born in Paris. He was …show more content…
Worst of all, the city was already hurt before, because of the overthrow of Walter of Brienne. Which lessens the influence between the nobility and the wealthier merchant classes. During this time, no one was certain if he was present in the plague-raved Florence. Instead he spent much of his time in the city of Ravenna seeking new patronage. In the middle of the black death, his stepmother died and shortly afterwards his father died as well. This caused Boccaccio to have an active role as head of the …show more content…
The Decameron was his most famous work that contained a collections of novellas and hundred tales told by a group of seven women and three men that lived outside Florence, trying to escape the Black Death that surrounded the city. He developed the Decameron after his experience in 1348 with the Black Death and finished it around 1353. The various tales in his book ranged from erotic to tragic. It provided a document of life during that time and it is considered to be a masterpiece of the Italian prose.
From 1350 Boccaccio became involved with Italian humanism and the Florentine government. He was asked to greet Francesco Petrarch. During their meeting, everything went well. Boccaccio started calling Petrarch his teacher and Minister and was encouraged to study classical Greek and Latin literature. Boccaccio then began working on his first edition of Genealogia Deorum Gentilium. One of the key reference of classical mythology that remained for the next 400 years. It’s purpose was to extend defense for the studies of ancient literature and