Giovanni Boccaccio

lived during the time of the Bubonic Plague in Florence, Italy named, Giovanni Boccaccio. Giovanni Boccaccio was born in Paris, France, in 1313 to a businessman and a Frenchwoman. Boccaccio was taken to Florence, Italy by his parents when he was an infant and was sent to Naples, in 1328, to study “commerce in the office of his father’s partner” (Mack 1143). In 1334, he then went to the study of canon law. In 1336, Boccaccio saw and fell in love with a girl named Maria d’Aquino. He portrayed…

written by Giovanni Boccaccio is an obvious source of entertainment used to bring light to the tragic Black Death in 1348. Many of the stories within the book display jokes aimed towards religion and women. Perhaps one of my favorite of the assigned stories is the fourth day introduction. Boccaccio begins to describe a story that claims “its very incompleteness will separate it from any others in my book” (Boccaccio, 287). The story describes a man whom has been dated back before Boccaccio and…

The Black Death is a high mortality rate disease, patient died within just one day after they first touch it. As Italy writer Giovanni Boccaccio described in his work The Decameron, “How many valiant men, how many fair ladies, breakfast with their kinfolk and the same night supped with their ancestors in the next world” (the Black Death and the Transformation of the West, 40.) What a tragic scene! Imagine there were numerous people died everyday, you will never know were the people lying on the…

On the eighth day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, three stories of sexual deception highlight the regional economic and moral distinctions of 14th century Italy. Although Italy is starting to become a country of international commerce in the late 1300s, the second tale of the eighth day is told in a village, an economic system of bartering instead of physical currency. Moreover, the first story takes place in Milan, adding a new perspective of the depiction of women with a tangible…

In The onset of the Black Death by Giovanni Boccaccio, he states that God has sent the people this disease to them as a retribution for their sinfulness. This appears to be God’s way of purifying his Earth again by ridding it of the sinful ways and people. However, on another note, the disease…

them around; and within a short time, after a number of convulsions, both pigs fell dead upon the ill-fated rags, as if they had been poisoned (Boccaccio, p. 323). The Black Death plague began in Central Asia and ravaged through China, Mongolia, northern India and the Middle East, through the trade routes during the 1330s and 1340s. Giovanni Boccaccio was a writer and poet from Florence; his work The Decameron became quite famous and in Perspectives from the Past, Primary Source in Western…

Source 1: Aston, Margaret. The panorama of the Renaissance: with over 1000 images. London, Thames and Hudson, 1996 Origin: The author of this book is Margaret Aston. She is a british historian and an academic specialising in the Late Medieval Period and ecclesiastical history. “The Panorama of the Renaissance” was published in London by Thames and Hudson in 1996. Purpose: Margaret Aston in the historical book “The Panorama of the Renaissance” overall gives a brief overview of what was the…

from place to place. The black death pandemic not only struck the higher classes, but it hit those who poor as well. Although the death rates were beyond belief, the cause of this pandemic still remains a mystery. According to an eyewitness, Giovanni Boccaccio a Florentine…

of the 13th century, communes were formed. Councils and officials that were elected by the citizens governed them. They set up municipal schools and provided many people with vernacular education in reading, writing and arithmetic. According to Giovanni Villani, half of the male population of Florence attended schools or professional schools that prepared them for mercantile occupation. This had a major impact on the vernacular because more and more people were using it as a way of writing and…

Dante Alighieri’s Inferno was one of the first major works in what would later be known as standard, Tuscan Italian. While the Inferno was important, it was not the first, sole nor main cause of the rise of Tuscan Italian. Many authors both before and after the time of Dante were just as, if not more, influential in the rise of the Tuscan Italian dialect as Dante Alighieri’s work. Although influential in ending the Latin language’s monopoly of written language in Italy and extending the…