People


Giovanni Boccaccio 1313–1375  - Tuscany, Florance

 

Encyclopedia Entries

Columbia Encyclopedia

Wikipedia

Catholic Encyclopedia


Questions of 


Reading

Filocolo, 

Filostrato,( Troilus and Cressida ) 

Teseide, 

La Fiammetta (written c.1344); 

Ninfale d’Ameto; 

Amorosa visione

Decameron 1348–53

Bucolicum carmen

On Famous Women, Latin text and English translation, 2001

De genealogiis

De montibus.


Writing available on the net

Decameron Web

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/index.shtml

Medieval Sourcebook: Boccaccio: The Decameron - Introduction


Commentaries

T. C. Chubb (1969); studies by V. Branca (1976), T. G. Bergin (1981), and J. Sauli (1982).

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Geoffrey Chaucer Page

BOCCACCIO AND DECAMERON GUIDE TO WEBSITES

 


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