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Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313- December 21, 1375)
Giovanni Boccaccio was born in Paris as the bastard son of a Florentine businessman and a Frenchwoman, and was then later sent to Italy in his infancy. Boccaccio was an Italian author and poet, student, and correspondent of Petrarch. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses all other writers in that time, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot.
Renaissance Spirit
Boccaccio was a poet, scholar, and diplomat whose work helped raise literature in the vernacular to the respectability of classical texts. Though known for writing in Italian, Boccaccio wrote primarily in Latin later in life. Today Boccaccio is best known for his earthy masterpiece the Decameron, in which ten individuals fleeing from the plague into the countryside tell stories, and which is believed to have influenced Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Later in life he met Petrarch and established a friendship with the older author; together their works are considered by some to be the foundation of humanist literature
Giovanni Boccaccio was born in Paris as the bastard son of a Florentine businessman and a Frenchwoman, and was then later sent to Italy in his infancy. Boccaccio was an Italian author and poet, student, and correspondent of Petrarch. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses all other writers in that time, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot.
Renaissance Spirit
Boccaccio was a poet, scholar, and diplomat whose work helped raise literature in the vernacular to the respectability of classical texts. Though known for writing in Italian, Boccaccio wrote primarily in Latin later in life. Today Boccaccio is best known for his earthy masterpiece the Decameron, in which ten individuals fleeing from the plague into the countryside tell stories, and which is believed to have influenced Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Later in life he met Petrarch and established a friendship with the older author; together their works are considered by some to be the foundation of humanist literature