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Boccaccio's Importance to the Renaissance

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Boccaccio's Importance to the Renaissance

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- Boccaccio was important to the Renaissance for many reasons.
- As a writer, Boccaccio played with many genres for his poetry, essays, and books.
- His humanism was expressed when he studied and interpreted ancient Greek texts and when he wrote about people’s everyday lives, like in the Decameron.
- His medieval ideas and stories helped to shape Italian culture during the 15th century.

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- Around 1350, Boccaccio became a part of the Italian government and as his job, was sent on missions.
- Later in the same year, he was asked to represent the government to meet Petrarch, who was a famous scholar and poet.
- After that meeting, Giovanni really liked Petrarch and started to think of him as a teacher.
- Petrarch influenced Boccaccio to take after him by becoming a scholar in both Latin and Greek.
- Boccaccio soon believed that reintroducing the classic Greek and Latin stories into the curriculum was crucial in advancing and advising Italian culture.
- Petrarch is believed to have inspired some of Boccaccio’s later work like, De genealogia deorum gentilium or "On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles". This was referenced for the classic mythologys for many centuries to come.
- In 1361 Giovanni Boccaccio left Florence and moved to Certaldo.
- When he was there, he lectured about the work of Dante, someone who he was influenced greatly by.
- In 1365 in Venice and 1368 in Padua, he met with Perarch. Perarch died in 1374 and Boccaccio dedicated a short poem called Rime to his late teacher.
- Boccaccio soon became ill and died in Certaldo in 1375.
- Giovanni Boccaccio’s last major work was Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante or "Expositions over the Divine Comedy", which was commentating about Dante's La Divina Commedia.

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- In 1340, he returned to Florence and continued his writing.
- It is believed that Giovanni started writing the Teseida or "The book of Theseus", an ottava rima poem, in Naples but completed it back in Florence.
- In 1340, he published, l ninfale d'Ameto or "Ameto's Story of the Nymphs" and over the next two years, he would publish, Amorosa visione or "The Amorous Vision", Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta or "Amorous Fiammetta", and Il ninfale fiesolano or "The Tale of the Fiesole Nymph".
- While all of this was happening, his father remarried and had another son.
- But in 1348, Boccaccio’s father and step-mother died due to the Black Plague. This left him to be the head of the family.
- The Black Death was the inspiration for his most famous work, the Decameron.

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- The Decameron, Boccaccio’s most famous work, is a collection of 100 stories.
- The fictional stories were written between 1348 and 1353.
- The Decameron follows 10 people (7 women and 3 men) over the course of 10 days, trying to escape the Black Plague in Florence.
- The 100 stories consist of a story per person every day, making ten stories a day.
- Many of the Decameron stories were so popular that they were retold in other languages.
- While some of the stories were told in English in the 14th century, the entire collection of stories were not fully translated until 1620.
- Boccaccio’s stories showed many new takes and ideas on man and their ways to achieve happiness.

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- Giovanni Boccaccio was born in Paris and was the son of Boccaccino di Chellino, who was a banker or merchant. His mother is unknown but she is believed to be French Woman.
- He was raised in Florence, by his father.
- He was believed to have a tutor named Giovanni Mazzuoli, who was one of the the first people to introduce Boccaccio to Dante’s early work.
- Giovanni apprenticed at the Neapolitan branch for six years when his father became head of the bank Neapolitan branch.
- His dad did not like Giovanni having an interest in literacy, and sent him to Naples to study business around 1328.
- While he was in Naples he experienced the commercial world, magnificence of courtly chivalry and feudalism.
- This experience helped him become acquainted with Scholars and people who would influence his work later in life.
- In 1330, he had two children, Mario and Giulio.
- While in Naples, he wrote La caccia di Diana or Diana’s Hunt, and  in terza rima, a poem.
- He also wrote Il filocolo or "The Love Afflicted”, a five book love and adventure story, following two characters. He wrote a poem in ottava rima, which is a stanza of eight 11-syllable lines, called Il filostrato or "The Love Struck", and this told the tale or Troilus and Criseida.

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- Giovanni Boccaccio was born in 1313, Paris, France.
- He died December 21st, 1375 in Certaldo, Tuscany, Italy.

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