1313-Certaldo, now Italy, 1375) Italian writer. Natural son of Florentine merchant and banker Chellino da Boccaccio, the powerful agent of the Bardi finance company, did not know the identity of his mother. The legends that Boccaccio himself the task to spread about his life can not be determined if he was born in Paris, Certaldo or Florence. The truth is that it grew in the latter city, in the neighborhood of San Pietro Maggiore, and was educated by Giovanni Mazzuoli da Strada, who instilled a passion for Dante that dominate his life. After demonstrating little
finance skills and trade, was sent by his father to Naples, where he acquired a solid literary education through the teachings of the most illustrious scholars of the Neapolitan court: Paolo da Perugia and Delnevo Andalo. What most impressed the Neapolitan environment were the refinement and pleasure that prevailed in the court of Anjou, where cultures converge Italian, Byzantine and Arabic.
In this context of courtly intrigue and ambition, forbidden love and sensuality lies his masterpiece, The Decameron, focused on changing and fascinating figure of Fiammetta, illegitimate daughter of Robert of Anjou, and his own youthful adventures, duly fortified by bright literary ornaments and inventions of all kinds. Fiammetta's character, whom the author claimed to have loved, obsessively covers all its previous literature.
In Naples, he wrote three important works: Filocolo (c. 1336), adaptation of the medieval history of Floris and Blancaflor, Philostratus (1338), poem attached to the cycle of the Trojan War, and the epic poem The Teseida (1339 to 1340 .) The bankruptcy of the Bardi bank forced him to return to Florence (1340), where he suffered severe economic hardship and domestic problems. Their situation is not removed him from his literary career, which, however, apparently was strengthened by that experience, he approached the picaresque atmosphere of merchants who came from his family. In those years he wrote the pastoral idyll Amet, The loving vision of Donna Fiammetta Elegy, written in prose, and Nymphs of Fiesole, which recreated, with eight-syllable verses, pure and noble love.
plague that ravaged Florence in 1348 inspired the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Decameron, which drew between that year and in 1353. The work was very successful, earning him henceforth often be promoted honorary official positions. Served as ambassador, first at Avignon and then in Rome. In those years are bucolic poem, composed set of sixteen Latin Eclogues and inspired Virgil, and two works of the opposite sign: Corbacho, social satire and sexual violence, and of the notable women, which contains a long series of women's biographies edifying.
finance skills and trade, was sent by his father to Naples, where he acquired a solid literary education through the teachings of the most illustrious scholars of the Neapolitan court: Paolo da Perugia and Delnevo Andalo. What most impressed the Neapolitan environment were the refinement and pleasure that prevailed in the court of Anjou, where cultures converge Italian, Byzantine and Arabic.
In this context of courtly intrigue and ambition, forbidden love and sensuality lies his masterpiece, The Decameron, focused on changing and fascinating figure of Fiammetta, illegitimate daughter of Robert of Anjou, and his own youthful adventures, duly fortified by bright literary ornaments and inventions of all kinds. Fiammetta's character, whom the author claimed to have loved, obsessively covers all its previous literature.
In Naples, he wrote three important works: Filocolo (c. 1336), adaptation of the medieval history of Floris and Blancaflor, Philostratus (1338), poem attached to the cycle of the Trojan War, and the epic poem The Teseida (1339 to 1340 .) The bankruptcy of the Bardi bank forced him to return to Florence (1340), where he suffered severe economic hardship and domestic problems. Their situation is not removed him from his literary career, which, however, apparently was strengthened by that experience, he approached the picaresque atmosphere of merchants who came from his family. In those years he wrote the pastoral idyll Amet, The loving vision of Donna Fiammetta Elegy, written in prose, and Nymphs of Fiesole, which recreated, with eight-syllable verses, pure and noble love.
plague that ravaged Florence in 1348 inspired the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Decameron, which drew between that year and in 1353. The work was very successful, earning him henceforth often be promoted honorary official positions. Served as ambassador, first at Avignon and then in Rome. In those years are bucolic poem, composed set of sixteen Latin Eclogues and inspired Virgil, and two works of the opposite sign: Corbacho, social satire and sexual violence, and of the notable women, which contains a long series of women's biographies edifying.
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