Giovanni boccaccio

It’s not what you think. It’s called “The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta,” and it’s in prose.

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Giovanni Boccaccio | The Italian poet, Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313 - 1375, was most probably born in Tuscany, the illegitimate son of a merchant of Certaldo, who launched him on a commercial career, during which he spent some time at Paris. As a young man, Boccaccio abandoned commerce and the study of canon law.

Dante Alighieri; c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante (English: ) was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language…

In 2013, Tuscany celebrates the birth of one of its native sons, Giovanni Boccaccio. Born sometime in 1313, in Florence or Certaldo, he was among the leading humanist figures of the early Renaissance. A writer and poet, who, like Dante and Petrarch, wrote in the vernacular, Boccaccio was the author of such classic and influential …

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron Dell Laurel Edition 1866, 1962 Cover: Color woodcut by Ellen Raskin "The world famous tales of amorous adventure."

painting of the poet Giovanni Boccaccio in his house in Certaldo, Florence, Tuscany.