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Giovanni Boccaccio

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Giovanni Boccaccio , 1313-75, Italian poet and storyteller, author of the Decameron. Born in Paris, the illegitimate son of a Tuscan merchant and a French woman, he was educated at Certaldo and Naples by his father, who wanted him to take up commerce and law. In Naples he met (1336) the woman (dubiously identified as Maria d'Aquino, illegitimate daughter of King Robert) whom he was to immortalize in prose and verse as Fiammetta. She is reputed to have introduced him at court and to have urged him to write (c.1340) his early Filocolo, a long vernacular prose romance. Other early works include... Read more
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–75), Italian writer and humanist. His chief works were The Decameron; Filocolo , a prose romance embodying the story...Fiammetta , a psychological romance in prose. He also wrote a number of encyclopaedic works in Latin which were widely read in England. Boccaccio is an ... Read more
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–75), Italian writer, poet, and humanist. He is most famous for the Decameron (1348–58), a collection of a hundred tales told by ten young people who have moved to the country to escape the Black Death. Read more

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Male piety and sexuality in Boccaccio's Decameron.(Giovanni Boccaccio)
; ...performance in selected novelle in Giovanni Boccaccio's fourteenth-century collection...5) Throughout the Decameron, Boccaccio never neglects the traumas of...lovers, and husbands. But for Boccaccio's men as well, and perhaps even... Read more
Giovanni Boccaccio: Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia (Teseida delle nozze de Emilia).(Book Review)
; ...00. This solid, literal translation of Boccaccio's Teseida fills a gap in the accessibility of Boccaccio's early works to the English reader, and...than, and often unrelated to, those by Boccaccio himself, and are full of unresolved lacunae... Read more
Boccaccio's 'Decameron' and de Ferrieres's 'Songe de Pestilence.' (Giovanni Bocaccio, Henri de Ferrieres)
; The opening section of Boccaccio's Decameron poses a problem of unity...storytellers that only a reader whom Boccaccio might have qualified as hypercritical...could detect. We propose here that Boccaccio's reference to planetary influence... Read more
Boccaccio was ahead of Chaucer's `Tales'.
; ...with curiosity an edition of Boccaccio's ``The Decameron,'' which...but she hadn't heard of Giovanni Boccaccio or ``The Decameron.'' So...scheme for the ``Tales'' from Boccaccio's signature work. They are...would have him junior to Boccaccio by 27 years, although they... Read more
Boccaccio-style novel probes diverse psyches of 10 inventive characters.(Dispatches)
; Giovanni Boccaccio wrote his Decameron in 1350, just after...How: To Do EVERYTHING Correctly! Like Boccaccio's work, Smiley's is divided up according...of different anecdotes as varied as Boccaccio's, and sometimes quite as bawdy. But... Read more
'Boccaccio' anthology features De Sica, Fellini; Plus 'Waltons' in 2nd season.(WASHINGTON WEEKEND)(PHANTOM OF THE MOVIES)
; ...double-disc digital debut of the milestone 1962 Italian anthology Boccaccio '70 ($29.95). It's our ... DVD pick of the week Four celluloid...updated from a quartet of tales from 14th-century author Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. Tops is Federico Fellini's hilariously... Read more
Dante's divine hype.(Review)
; ...ERIC GRIFFITHS LIFE OF DANTE by Giovanni Boccaccio foreword by AN Wilson LAST LETTERS...publishes in a new translation, Boccaccio praises it as divina but this...uncritically accepts a modern text of Boccaccio's words. A.N. Wilson in his introduction... Read more
De Laurentiis to produce classic `The Decameron'.
; LOS ANGELES _ Giovanni Boccaccio's classic The Decameron is being...Laurentiis, and our film, inspired by Boccaccio's classic book, will be familiar...history, the hundred stories told in Boccaccio's `The Decameron' are raked from... Read more
Famous Women / History of the Florentine People / Platonic Theology, Vol I, Books I-IV
; Famous Women, by Giovanni Boccaccio; History of the Florentine People, by Leonardo Bruni; Platonic Theology, Vol. 1, Books I-IV, by Marsilio Ficino. With these three... Read more
The Business, London, Allister Heath column.
; ...Decameron, published in 1350, the Italian humanist Giovanni Boccaccio wrote that what gave this pestilence particularly...assuming that the scenes described so vividly by Boccaccio will never again be seen outside the Third World... Read more

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