Boccaccio loses his father and starts composing his masterpiece, the Decameron. In 1348, the plague broke out in Florence. Fiammetta is a recurring character in Boccaccio’s works she’s a young Neapolitan woman based on Maria d’Aquino (the married daughter of King Robert the Wise), Boccaccio’s impossible love. When the bank his father worked for went bankrupt, Boccaccio moved back to Florence, where he wrote various works, including L’elegia di Madonna Fiammetta. In this period, he wrote his first texts, like La caccia di Diana, Il Filostrato and la Teseide. While best remembered for The Decameron, his overall work helped lay. It was during his residence in Naples, the city of art and culture, that Boccaccio realized he wanted to dedicate his life to literature. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccacio is a collection of short stories believed to have been written between 13. He was raised in a mercantile family in Florence that moved to Napels when Boccaccio was 14 years old. Giovanni Boccaccio was born in 1313, in Certaldo, a small town in Tuscany. The words about the importance of "human compassion" mark the opening of his most famous work, the Decameron. On his head a laurel crown the symbol of triumph. In the niche in the courtyard of Galleria degli Uffizi : the statue of Giovanni Boccaccio. Tis humane to have compassion on the afflicted and as it shews well in all, so it is especially demanded of those who have had need of comfort and have found it in others: among whom, if any had ever need thereof or found it precious or delectable, I may be numbered. First comprehensive English translation of Boccaccios Decameron, the second edition of volume I and.
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