Giovanni Boccaccio

In a time when ideology and convictions were shaped by the church, a new ideology was on the horizon that would begin the revolutionary transformation of the western world into what we know as the renaissance period. This new way of thought was brought about due to certain doctrines of the Catholic church that was viewed as uncanonical and dogmatic. The idealistic movement of Renaissance humanism’s spread throughout first Florence and then western Europe was greatly due to men with common…

Throughout the course of Cultural Perspectives, many texts and authors who have contributed to the Great Conversation have been discussed. Ultimately, each author is attempting to find his or her summum bonum or “highest good.” Although each author has a different definition of summum bonum, the majority agrees on the method required to attain the highest good: balance. Whether that balance be implicitly or explicitly accredited for the summum bonum differs for each author. Lao Tzu’s thoughts…

The European Renaissance and Reformation was a pivotal time in history; numerous artists and thinkers from that time had created a new set of ideals that shaped the works of playwrights and poets. The new set of ideals were created by Humanist philosophers and were vastly different from the Medieval and Deterministic ideals that were previously popular. Medieval and Deterministic ideals coincided with the ideas that man was the scum of the Earth and that man would never amount to anything. Man…

L’homme armé Surviving today in music manuscripts of the late fifteenth century and beyond are more than thirty-five polyphonic Masses built on the popular tune of L’homme armé. Wright & Simms (2010) reported that composers borrowed this melody more often for religious purposes than any other piece of music. Pierce (2011) asserted that the composer of the original monophonic melody L’homme armé, while unknown, created the piece around the 10th century near Burgundy, east-central France and later…

Giovanni Boccaccio’s passage The Plague in Florence: From the Decameron is an insightful exert on the Black Death. Giovanni Boccaccio declares his assumptions, interests, and ideals on what started the plague and the cause of new forms of behavior from the people. This selection is just his introduction to his many tales an insightful introduction it is. Giovanni Boccaccio assumes that there is no hope after getting sick from the Black Death. He assumes this also because he assumes that the…

Men, Women, and Giovanni Boccaccio’s “The Decameron” Introduction In the fourteenth century in Europe, amid the disastrous times of the Black Death, a gathering of youthful Florentines composed of seven ladies and three men, choose to escape to look for asylum and departure from the disease in an estate outside of the city of Florence. This is the fundamental casing utilized by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio to let us know one hundred stories of life, adoration and fortune with “The…

source is a first account of the Black Death’s arrival in Florence, Italy. It was written within The introduction of, The Decameron, in 1741, by Giovanni Boccaccio, a renowned poet, writer, and early humanist to better determine the multitude of deaths of the “Black Death” as it moved inland from port cities. When the plague reached Italy from the east, Giovanni Boccaccio’s account of the actions some individuals took to prevent and avoid the plague were indeed alarming. For instance, outside…

A quote from the passage is " "in order to win her love, he participated jousts and tournaments, organized and gave feasts, and spent his money without restraint" ( Giovanni Boccaccio, 209). Federigo did not care about what he had to give up as long as she was happy nothing else mattered to him. He eventually became poor and lived on a farm, & Giovanna came over to ask for his beloved falcon for her son, but he had killed…

The stories “Federigo’s Falcon” by Giovanni Boccaccio in addition to “The Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer are both frame stories written in the same era. Both authors’ place several themes in each work which are prevalent plus can be seen in today’s world in many aspects of life. But the theme that unites both authors along with their stories together would be that of the importance of a union. In “Federigo’s Falcon” and “The Pardoner’s Tale” both authors employ the element of irony to…

Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio both offer modern society a glimpse into the dark ages through their literary pieces, The Canterbury Tales and The Decameron. Composed of numerous short stories, the two pieces of literature convey the way of life in 1300s as well as the medieval society’s belief and the strong influence of the bubonic plague. Short stories within The Canterbury Tales and The Decameron feature the plague and utilize the illness to construct plot and the overall theme. In…