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Giovanni Boccaccio

Also known as Giovanni Boccace, Boccaccio, Boccace, Joanni B. de Certaldo

Italian author and poet (1313–1375)

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Giovanni Boccaccio was a male writer, poet, humanist, and author from Italy. His work period began in 1323 and ended in 1373. He wrote in Italian, Latin, and English. His notable works include the Decameron von Heinrich Steinhöwel, Il filocolo, Tasnōreak, and the story of troilus.

He was born on 16 July 1313 and died in 1375, with specific dates cited as 21 December 1375 or 31 December 1375. His works are associated with the genres of prose and poetry. He is referenced by 1,026 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 16 July 1313
Died: 21 December 1375
Works: 914

Top works

the story of troilus
Decameron von Heinrich Steinhöwel
Il filocolo
Tasnōreak
Mga sugilanon sa gugma ni Giovanni Boccaccio

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Italy
Active from: 1313-06-16
Active to: 1375-12-21

has german audiobooks

Discography

Das Dekameron2000

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 622
Total plays: 5,693

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners
· 2019 · cited 21,711x
Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes
· 1977 · cited 19,842x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
Canonical sampling through velocity rescaling
· 2007 · cited 17,284x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan: 1313–1375
Nationality: IT
Role / Field: Writer, Poets, Poet, Humanists, Authors, Proza
Language: ita, lat, eng
Gender: Male

Recorded by 45 libraries

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Quotes

“Se medesimi esaltando con parole da fare per istomacaggine le pietre saltar del muro e fuggirsi.”
“Giovine donna è mobile, e vogliosa È negli amanti molti, e sua bellezza Estima più ch'allo specchio, e pomposa Ha vanagloria di sua giovinezza; La qual quanto piacevole e vezzosa È più, cotanto più seco l'apprezza: Virtù non sente, né conoscimento, Volubil sempre come foglia al vento.”
“La gentilezza non si può lasciar in eredità, se non come le virtù, le scienze, la santità, e così fatte cose.”
“Quale asino dà in parete cotale riceve.”
“It is annoying and impossible to suffer proud women, because in general Nature has given men proud and high spirits, while it has made women humble in character and submissive, more apt for delicate things than for ruling.”
“Non come uomini, ma quasi come bestie, morieno.”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Giovanni Boccaccio, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Il Decameron

Il Corbaccio.

L'Urbano.

[Decamerone, German, excerpt]: Historia Sigismunde, the daughter of Tancredi von Solernia and the disciple Guiscardi

Book called Cayda de Principes

Filostrato [Manuscrito]. Inc.: Io di Parnaso le muse pregare (h. 6)... Exp.: E con lieta risposta a me t'inuia (h. 116v)

De las mujeres ilustres [Texto impreso]

Genealogy of the gods.. Thirteen first books [Manuscript]

Nouvelles. Traduction libre, ornee de la vie de Boccace, des contes que Lafontaine a empruntes de cet auteur, et de figures etc. par Mirabeau

Ameto, comedia delle ninfe fiorentine ... con la dichiaratione de' luoghi difficili di M. Francesco Sansovino (etc.)

Rubriche della commedia di Dante Alighieri scritte in prosa (etc.)

Pistola A Messer Francesco Priore Di Sant' Apostolo Testo Di Lingua Ora Ragguagliato Con Un Codice Della Marciana E Ridotto A Buona Lettura Da Bartolommeo Gamba

Flamette; complainte des tristes amours de Flamette a son amy Pamphile

Le Philocope, contenant l'histoire de Fleury et Blanchefleur

Il Decameron

La caccia di Diana; poemetto.

Laberinto d'amor: que hizo en toscano el famoso poeta Juan Bocacio: agora nueuamente traduzido en nuestra lengua castellana

La Fiammetta del Boccaccio per messer Tizzone Gaetano di Pofi novamente revista

[Konvolut českých tisků]

IL DECAMERONE /

Genealogiae deorum De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus et fluminibus ac destagnis et paludibus necnon et de diversis maris nominibus

De claris mulieribus (en castellano)

Maximi Tyrii philosophi platonici Sermones e graeca in latinam lingvam versi Cosmo Paccio interprete

AMETO OVER COMEDIA DELLE NIMPHE FIORENTINE /

De claris mulieribus (en castellano)

Urbano, figliuolo di Federigo Barbarossa, favola

La Fiammetta

De casibus virorum illustrium

De claris mulieribus (en castellano)

Symmachi Cons. Ro. Epistolae familiares. Item Lavdini Eouitis hierosolymitani in epistolas Turci magni traductio. Symmachus in verbis parcus, sed mente profundus: Prodigus in sensu, verbis angustus: abundans Mente, sed ore minor: fructu, non fronde beatus: Sensus diuitias verbi breuitate coartat

La Fiammetta del Boccaccio : Per Messer Tizzone Gaetano di Pofi novamente revista

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Encyclopedic overview

16th-century portrait of Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese". He was one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars (including Vittore Branca) define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.

His most notable works are The Decameron, a collection of short stories, and On Famous Women. The Decameron became a determining element for the Italian literary tradition, especially after Pietro Bembo elevated the Boccaccian style to a model of Italian prose in the sixteenth century. Boccaccio wrote his imaginative literature mostly in Tuscan vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue that differed from that of his contemporaries, medieval writers who usually followed formulaic models for character and plot. The influence of Boccaccio's works was not limited to the Italian cultural scene, but extended to the rest of Europe, exerting influence on authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, a key figure in English literature, and the later writers Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and classical theatre in Spain.

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