Giovanni Boccaccio

then started to have a fever. This was lacked of "sanitation" which it has four wave of bubonic pledge wipe in the Middle eastern. In Florentine, people start to abandon their home and family. Moving on, the tale of Fillippa was a stories wrote by Boccaccio tells a story about Filippa was a worshiper but then Rinaldo…

to hardships. In The Decameron, published between 1348 and 1353, the author, Giovanni Boccaccio, writes,“Because of all these things… diverse fears and imaginings were born… Others were of the opinion that they should live moderately and guard against all excess… Others, who disagreed with this, affirmed that drinking beer, enjoying oneself, and going around singing and ruckus-raising…” (“Giovanni Boccaccio.”), (Boccaccio). Before ideas of humanism developed, authors would write about horrific…

The Black Death was an extremely terrible illness that swept across Europe on someday in october in the year 1347. The Black Death was responsible for as many as 20 million people about one third of the continent. The Death arrived on trade ships and that’s how it got to europe there are still many unanswered questions about the illness and how it just disappeared after a five year spread. The year was 1347 was when twelve Genoese trading ships came to the sicilian port in…

nobility such as Latin or French, further promoting a disconnection from the common people. One of his most notable stories of the anthology would be The Knights’ Tale. Chaucer’s personal experience, his use of Greek mythology and Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s long epic poem Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia serves as the foundation for The Knight’s Tale. Written in 1340, the Teseida consists of twelve books supposedly created as an attempt “to domesticate…

With an estimated thirty-eight million men, women, and children left dead, the Black Death that swept through Europe in the mid-fourteenth century is by and large the most devastating epidemic of medieval European history. Long thought to have been brought to the European continent by flea-carrying Asian traders, the plague left a crippling trail of death and destruction in its wake. Some scholars now challenge the source of the plague, saying it could not have come from fleas or rats but rather…

Petrarch was a poet and a scholar who set up the renaissance era with his humanist philosophy. He was a devoted man who is considered the “Father of Humanism.” He is also considered the father of what is now the modern Italian language. He was also a poet, who wrote almost solely about his love, Laura. Born on July 20th, 1304, Petrarch started studying law because he father wanted him to. This was of course not his passion but could not refuse his father. Once his father died in 1326 he pursued…

of himself on earth the sign…” (XXIV 48-51) Dante includes characteristics of early humanism of embracing talent and expressing how to earn fame by the time of death. Dante Alighieri influenced Francesco Petrarch in his writing of “A Letter to Boccaccio” explaining that people can take a spiritual path to heaven and a literary path, it does not change where a person will end up in the afterlife, heaven or hell. Dante takes the spiritual path to the afterlife. He studied the classics of Roman…

works of Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio, specifically Dante’s Inferno and Boccaccio’s Decameron, both authors placed their own views and attitude on the church. Born at in similar times, Dante and Boccaccio in an era of church corruption and mix between church and state, both had similar opinions on the church. Dante’s views of the church were mostly views of criticism portrayed through the sinners he encounters in his trip through purgatory and hell while Boccaccio explained his views…

the Black Death with three types of fear. They isolated themselves from the sickness, tried to explain the sickness, and/or blamed someone for the plague. Avoiding the sickness seemed to be the most common reaction to the fear of the plague. Giovanni Boccaccio had said in the introduction to The Decameron “almost all of them adopted the same cruel policy, which was entirely avoid the sick and everything belonging to them.” He had said this about those who stayed completely shut-in, away from…

The main source, on which the Knight's Tale was based, was a long epic poem Teseida written by Giovanni Boccaccio. Although, Chaucer has used the storyline of Teseida almost without change of Boccacio's work, he made some rather important change in style, tone, structure and narration. The tone and mood of the Knight's Tale are radically different from what we find in proportions of Teseida – more unpleasant. The other remarkable change that Chaucer provides is the first person narration of the…