Calcinaia boccaccio biography

Giovanni Boccaccio () was an Italian author and poet, a friend, and correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist[1†][2†]. He was born in Tuscany and died in Certaldo, Tuscany[1†][2†].

Boccaccio is best remembered as the author of the earthy tales in the Decameron[1†]. 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[1†][2†].

Boccaccio’s life was full of difficulties and occasional bouts of poverty[1†][3†].

His early works include The Love Afflicted (c.

Calcinaia boccaccio biography

), a prose work in five books, and The Book of Theseus (c. ), an ambitious epic of 12 cantos[1†][3†]. 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