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Italian author and poet (1313–1375)
Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born
Giovanni_Boccaccio
14th-century collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio
14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). It is sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("The Human Comedy"), as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante
The_Decameron
Italian noblewoman (died 1283–1286)
one put forth by poet Giovanni Boccaccio in his commentary on the Divine Comedy, Esposizioni sopra la Comedia di Dante. Boccaccio stated that Francesca
Francesca_da_Rimini
Italian writer and philosopher (1265–1321)
Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle
Dante_Alighieri
1962 film
and love in modern times in the style of Giovanni Boccaccio. Directed by Mario Monicelli. Written by Giovanni Arpino, Italo Calvino, Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Boccaccio_'70
First part of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
1309–1310, though revisions likely continued for many years afterwards. Giovanni Boccaccio and some other early commentators argued that Dante composed the first
Inferno_(Dante)
Italian philologist and academic
the most acclaimed contemporary scholars of Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. A man with strong religious roots, he participated in the partisan
Vittore_Branca
Sexual arousal from breastfeeding or adult nursing
4, pp. 501–503 Giovanni Boccaccio: De claris mulieribus, chapter: LXV. De romana iuvencula; English translation: Giovanni Boccaccio, Famous Women. Edited
Erotic_lactation
Operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé
Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Despite the opera's clear links to the Viennese opera tradition,
Boccaccio_(operetta)
Name list
Florence, Italy Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian Renaissance writer Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931), Italian painter Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747),
Giovanni_(name)
American medieval black comedy television series
the 14th-century Italian short-story collection The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. It was released on Netflix on July 25, 2024, to generally favorable
The_Decameron_(TV_series)
Bubonic plague pandemic
outbreaks in Europe, with many literate eyewitnesses, among them being Giovanni Boccaccio, Marchionne di Coppo Stefani, and Agnolo di Tura, whose descriptions
Black_Death_in_Italy
1361–62 biographies by Giovanni Boccaccio
biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in Latin prose in 1361–1362. It is the first collection
De_Mulieribus_Claris
Poem by Giovanni Boccaccio
"Il Filostrato" is a poem by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, and the inspiration for Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and, through Chaucer
Il_Filostrato
Character from Boccaccio's Decameron (V, 8)
one of the one hundred short stories contained in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, La historia de Nastagio degli Onesti. The eighth story of the fifth
Nastagio_degli_Onesti
Irish writer
Dublin, before becoming a teacher. In 2013, she was awarded the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction for The Things We Know Now, which
Catherine_Dunne_(writer)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1918). Domenico Guerri (ed.). Il comento alla Divina Commedia e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante. Vol. 1. 85.Giovanni Boccaccio (1918)
Scrittori_d'Italia
1972 Italian comedy film
written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies
Boccaccio_(1972_film)
Largest city in Tuscany, Italy
to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini. Located about 275
Florence
2015 Italian film
Vittorio Taviani. It is loosely based on stories from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. During the mid-14th century, in Florence, some young people of rich
Wondrous_Boccaccio
1355 book by Giovanni Boccaccio
Il Corbaccio, or "The Crow", is an Italian literary work by Giovanni Boccaccio, traditionally dated c. 1355. The work is narrated in the first person and
Corbaccio
1405 book by Christine de Pizan
1405. Trans. Rosalind Brown-Grant. London: Penguin, 1999. Print. Boccaccio, Giovanni. De mulieribus claris. English & Latin. Famous women. Ed. by Virginia
The Book of the City of Ladies
The_Book_of_the_City_of_Ladies
Ponce de León Abel Tasman Giovanni da Verrazzano João Gonçalves Zarco Leon Battista Alberti Thomas Blundeville Giovanni Boccaccio Poggio Bracciolini Leonardo
List_of_Renaissance_figures
Italian scholar and poet (1304–1374)
modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri. Petrarch was later endorsed
Petrarch
summaries of the one hundred stories in Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. In the book's introduction, Boccaccio begins with a graphic description of the
Summary_of_Decameron_tales
Region of Italy
established by Tuscans' use in literature by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini led to its adoption
Tuscany
1349) was the father of the famous Florentine Renaissance writer, Giovanni Boccaccio. During his life, Chellino worked for the Compagnia dei Bardi, a banking
Boccaccino_de_Chellino
Italian writer (1881–1956)
face-to-face with Giovanni Boccaccio, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but also contemporaries such as Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile, and
Giovanni_Papini
Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri
Commedia. The earliest known use of the adjective Divina appears in Giovanni Boccaccio's biographical work Trattatello in laude di Dante ("Treatise in Praise
Divine_Comedy
Amazonian queen in Greek mythology
dames, which included Penthesilea. Between 1361 and 1362 the Italian Giovanni Boccaccio wrote the first collection of biographies in Western literature that
Penthesilea
Painting by Giorgio Vasari
from left to right are Guittone d'Arezzo, Cino da Pistoia, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, and Guido Cavalcanti. In 2021 it was lent to the
Six_Tuscan_Poets
1340s novel by Giovanni Boccaccio
Elegy of Lady Fiammetta in English, is a novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344. Written in the form of a
Elegia_di_Madonna_Fiammetta
Comune in Tuscany, Italy
and 40 minutes by rail north of Siena. It was home to the family of Giovanni Boccaccio, author of the Decameron, who was possibly born and died at his home
Certaldo
Revival in the study of Classical antiquity
were great collectors of antique manuscripts, including Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Coluccio Salutati, and Poggio Bracciolini. Of the four, Petrarch
Renaissance_humanism
Literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe
4000/arzana.232. Retrieved 22 June 2022. "BOCCACCIO, Giovanni" (in Italian). Retrieved 23 June 2022. "GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO" (in Italian). Archived from the original
Western_literature
1971 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Paolo Pasolini, based on the 14th-century collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first film of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, the others being
The_Decameron_(film)
1355-74 work of Latin biographies by Giovanni Boccaccio
of 56 biographies in Latin prose composed by the Florentine poet Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo in the form of moral stories of the falls of famous people
De_casibus_virorum_illustrium
becomes a spring and Pyramus a river. Ovid's version was adapted by Giovanni Boccaccio in On Famous Women and in his Decameron, and in English in the 1380s
Thisbe_(nymph)
2017 film by Jeff Baena
third day of The Decameron, a 14th-century collection of novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Aubrey
The_Little_Hours
Princes is a long poem by English poet John Lydgate. It is based on Giovanni Boccaccio's work De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, which Lydgate knew in a French
The_Fall_of_Princes
Italian nobleman and landowner
best remembered as a character in the poetry of Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio. Conrad Malaspina was born sometime in the first two decades of the
Conrad_Malaspina_the_Younger
Town and comune of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy
Bandini, Italian author Bernard Berenson, American art historian Giovanni Boccaccio, Renaissance humanist Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter St. Andrew Corsini
Fiesole
Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter (born 1953)
Castellitto appeared in the television series In Treatment in the role of Giovanni. Most recently, Castellitto portrayed the archconservative Cardinal Tedesco
Sergio_Castellitto
4th-century BC female ruler of Caria
widowhood and of the purest and rarest kind of love", in the words of Giovanni Boccaccio. In art, she was usually shown in the process of consuming his ashes
Artemisia_II_of_Caria
Crater on Mercury
(IAU) in 1976. Boccaccio is named after the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, who lived from 1313 to 1375. To the west of Boccaccio is Sadī crater,
Boccaccio_(crater)
Queen of Naples from 1343 to 1381
1381. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote a biography of Joanna in his series of biographies known as De mulieribus claris (en: On Famous Women). Boccaccio devoted
Joanna_I_of_Naples
Genre in comedy
such as theatre and film, literary works such as those of Ovid and Giovanni Boccaccio may be considered sex comedies. Sex comedy was popular in 17th century
Sex_comedy
2007 film by David Leland
Tim Roth, Rosalind Halstead and Kate Groombridge. It is based upon Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century tale The Decameron. The film was released in France
Virgin_Territory
chastity. She was also included among the Famous Women written about by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th century. Valerius Maximus included the story of Hippo
Hippo_(Greek_woman)
Mythological narrative poem by Ovid
Western culture. It has inspired such authors as Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare. Numerous episodes from
Metamorphoses
Italo-Dalmatian varieties of Romance
mostly to the prestige of the works by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Francesco Guicciardini, the Tuscan-derived
Tuscan_dialects
Collection of stories by Jean de La Fontaine
works of the 15th and 16th centuries, among them The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Antoine de la Sale's collection
Contes_et_nouvelles_en_vers
1558 story collection by Marguerite de Navarre
the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering
Heptaméron
King of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1192
Guy appears as the main leading character in a tale of Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, where the censure of a Gascon lady rouses the King of Cyprus from
Guy_of_Lusignan
Painting by John Everett Millais
Dryden which was itself inspired the Renaissance work The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, it shows the beautiful Iphigenia encountering the young nobleman
Cymon_and_Iphigenia_(Millais)
Second wife of Herod the Great
biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in 1361–62. It is notable as the first collection devoted
Mariamne_I
French noblewoman and translator (fl. 1550s)
translator. She translated the works of Gian Giorgio Trissino and Giovanni Boccaccio from Italian into French. Cambis was born in Alès, near Nîmes, in
Marguerite_de_Cambis
Topics referred to by the same term
dictionary. The Decameron is a 14th-century writing by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, circa 1353. Decameron may also refer to: The Decameron (film), a
Decameron_(disambiguation)
Italian novelist and journalist (1907–1990)
reading books and some of his favourite authors were Giosuè Carducci, Giovanni Boccaccio, Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Ludovico Ariosto, Carlo Goldoni,
Alberto_Moravia
British actor (1933–2023)
Lovecraft (Caedmon Records, 1979) Five Tales from the Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio (with Carole Shelley) (Caedmon Records, 1981) Three Men in a Boat
David_McCallum
Comune in Campania, Italy
for their summer stays. The importance of the palace was such that Giovanni Boccaccio made it the setting for a story of the Decameron, precisely the sixth
Castellammare_di_Stabia
Ancient Greek concept of sensual or passionate love
the introduction by Nathaniel Edward Griffin to The Filostrato of Giovanni Boccaccio (New York: Bilbo and Tannen, no date. ISBN 0-8196-0187-X), p.76, note
Eros_(concept)
Character in Dante's Inferno
be a pig's name, hence he was called this way for his gluttony." Giovanni Boccaccio makes of Ciacco eighth story of the ninth day of the Decameron, describing
Ciacco
Aristarete, Iaia, Olympias, and possibly Calypso. During the Renaissance, Giovanni Boccaccio, a 14th-century humanist, included Eirene in De mulieribus claris
Eirene_(artist)
Greek mythology character, daughter of Agenor
biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in 1361–62. It is notable as the first collection devoted
Europa_(consort_of_Zeus)
1920 film
Boccaccio (aka Boccaccios Liebesnachte) is a 1920 Austrian silent film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Paul Lukas, as Boccaccio, and Ica von
Boccaccio_(1920_film)
Giant huntsman in Greek mythology
is also called Oeneus, although he is not the Calydonian Oeneus. Giovanni Boccaccio, citing a lost Latin writer, describes Orion as the son of Oenopion
Orion_(mythology)
Epic poem written by Giovanni Boccaccio
Concerning the Nuptials of Emily) is a long epic poem written by Giovanni Boccaccio c.1340–41. Running to almost 10,000 lines divided into twelve books
Teseida
of Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes by the 14th-century AD poet Giovanni Boccaccio, depicted Cleopatra and Antony lying together in a Gothic-style tomb
Death_of_Cleopatra
Classical Literature short books
Books has published 128 in total. 01. Mrs Rosie and the Priest - Giovanni Boccaccio 02. As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins 03. The Saga
Little_Black_Classics
Ancient Roman novel by Apuleius
picaresque novel, in which Francisco de Quevedo, François Rabelais, Giovanni Boccaccio, Miguel de Cervantes, Voltaire, Daniel Defoe and many others have
The_Golden_Ass
Painting by John Everet Millais
Art Gallery in Liverpool. The painting illustrates an episode from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron novel Lisabetta e il testo di bassilico (1349–1353), which
Isabella_(Millais_painting)
American scholar and translator (1933–2021)
translator, most widely known for his work on Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio. He was described by a department chair at Princeton University as
Robert_Hollander
Book by Giovanni Boccaccio
Latin prose from 1360 onwards by the Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. Boccaccio undertook the project at the request of Hugh IV of Cyprus. The
Genealogia_Deorum_Gentilium
Creature of Greek mythology
serves a similar role as gatekeeper for the entire seventh Circle. Giovanni Boccaccio writes of the Minotaur in his literary commentary of the Commedia:
Minotaur
Poem by John Keats
Basil (1818) is a narrative poem by John Keats adapted from a story in Boccaccio's Decameron (IV, 5). It tells the tale of a young woman whose family intend
Isabella,_or_the_Pot_of_Basil
Topics referred to by the same term
Boccaccio in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) was an Italian author and poet. Boccaccio may also refer to: Boccaccio Boccaccino
Boccaccio_(disambiguation)
Ancient Roman goddess of fertility and the earth
biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in 1361–1362. It is notable as the first collection devoted
Ops
Roman noblewoman (36 BC–AD 37)
biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in 1361–1362. It is notable as the first collection devoted
Antonia_Minor
Italian translator and scholar (1312–1361)
translator, scholar and correspondent of Petrarch and a friend of Giovanni Boccaccio. Zanobi da Strada was born in Strata or Strada in Chianti, a hamlet
Zanobi_da_Strada
Ferryman of Hades in Greek mythology
Charon. In Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, the Italian Renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio wrote that Charon, whom he identified as the god of time, was a son
Charon
Name appearing in Virgil's Aeneid
literary tradition concerning Aricia as a consort of Hippolytus. Giovanni Boccaccio in his Genealogia Deorum Gentilium states that Theodontius was wrong
Aricia_(mythology)
One of the Fates of Greek mythology
youngest of the three Fates, although in some later sources, such as Giovanni Boccaccio’s Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, she is described as the eldest among
Clotho
Dialect of Italian spoken in Marino
classical authors, such as Luigi Pulci ("arrivorno"), Giovanni Villani (“posono”) and Giovanni Boccaccio (“feciono”). In the first person singular of the simple
Marino_dialect
Play by William Shakespeare
his own romantic sub-plot. The Roman de Troie was in turn a source for Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato", which was the main source for Chaucer's poetry Troilus
Troilus_and_Cressida
and one of the central character's, Calandro, was borrowed from Giovanni Boccaccio's, Decameron. It premiered in 1513 at the Court of Urbino. Fessenio
La_Calandria_(play)
Dharmanathapuranam Wynnere and Wastoure (anonymous) 1353 Giovanni Boccaccio – The Decameron c. 1355 Giovanni Boccaccio – Corbaccio c. 1360–84 John of Fordun – Chronica
14th_century_in_literature
1745 play
writer James Thomson. It is inspired by one of the story's from Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. The original cast included David Garrick as Tancred
Tancred_and_Sigismunda
Third part of Dante's Divine Comedy
1313 to 1317. It was likely not published until after Dante's death. Giovanni Boccaccio claimed that Paradiso was initially thought unfinished at Dante's
Paradiso
Lost 16th-century play
Palamon and Arcite (1566) is a play by Richard Edwardes, which was performed before Elizabeth I at Oxford. It is based on Chaucer's The Knight's Tale.
Palamon_and_Arcite_(Edwardes)
Story collection by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales contains more parallels to the Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, than any other work. Like the Tales, the Decameron features a frame
The_Canterbury_Tales
History of the Roman Empire by the Roman historian and senator Publius Cornelius Tacitus
ISBN 0-19-538703-1 Oxford University Press 2009 page 201 Boccaccio's Expositions on Dante's Comedy by Giovanni Boccaccio, Michael Papio 2009 ISBN 0-8020-9975-0 University
Annals_(Tacitus)
Painting by Marie Spartali Stillman
held at a private collection. The painting was inspired by a poem of Giovanni Boccaccio, translated to English by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Last Sight
The_Last_Sight_of_Fiammetta
Falling in long-lasting love on first sight
beautiful woman is compared to the sight of a basilisk.[citation needed] Giovanni Boccaccio provides a memorable example in his Il Filostrato, where he mixes
Love_at_first_sight
American scholar of literature (1909–1985)
of literature. He was an expert on the work of Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio. He wrote An Essay on the Vita Nuova (1949) and Dante Studies (I vol
Charles_S._Singleton
UNESCO World Heritage Site
attraction for thousands of visitors. The villa was mentioned by Giovanni Boccaccio in his Decameron and it is the place where Richard Wagner in 1880
Ravello
Greek mythological Queen of Thebes
biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in 1361–62. It is notable as the first collection devoted
Jocasta
Ancient story
for the family. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, writers Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) and Christine de Pizan (1364-1430) both used the story of
Roman_Charity
Stanza rhyming ABABABCC
of mock-heroic works. Its earliest known use is in the writings of Giovanni Boccaccio. The ottava rima stanza in English consists of eight iambic lines
Ottava_rima
Commonplace book
been the subject of scholarly studies, for instance Giovanni Boccaccio's three zibaldoni. and Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai’s Zibaldone quaresimale Similarly
Zibaldone
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