"the group in turn proposes a question of love. This section is particularly significant because it foreshadows the scheme of the ""Decameron"". The material is drawn from popular tradition; the adventures of Florio and Biancifiore were as well known in Europe as those of Tristan and Isolde. In Italy there was a popular poem in ""ottava rima"" entitled ""Cantare di Florio e Biancifiore"". Boccaccio, however, made a distinctive version of the story, inaugurating his new prose style. The Filocolo The Filocolo (orig. "" Il Filocolo"") is a novel written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1335-36. It is considered to be the"
"Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (; ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including ""The Decameron"" and ""On Famous Women"". He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in the Italian vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue which differed from that of his contemporaries, medieval writers who usually followed formulaic models for character and plot. The details of Boccaccio's birth are uncertain. He was born in Florence or in a village near"
"The Decameron The Decameron (Italian title: ""Decameron"" or ""Decamerone"" ), subtitled ""Prince Galehaut"" (Old and sometimes nicknamed ""Umana commedia"", ""Human comedy""), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived of ""The Decameron"" after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353. The various tales of love in ""The Decameron"" range"
"""Decameron"", a collection of 100 stories told by ten storytellers who have fled to the outskirts of Florence to escape the black plague over ten nights. The ""Decameron"" in particular and Boccaccio's work in general were a major source of inspiration and plots for many English authors in the Renaissance, including Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare. Aside from Christianity, classical antiquity, and scholarship, a fourth influence on Renaissance literature was politics. The political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli's most famous works are ""Discourses on Livy"", ""Florentine Histories"" and finally ""The Prince"", which has become so well known in Western society that the"
"claims, it is not certain whether he was present in plague-ravaged Florence. His stepmother died during the epidemic and his father was closely associated with the government efforts as Minister of Supply in the city. His father died in 1349 and Boccaccio was forced into a more active role as head of the family. Boccaccio began work on ""The Decameron"" around 1349. It is probable that the structures of many of the tales date from earlier in his career, but the choice of a hundred tales and the frame-story ""lieta brigata"" of three men and seven women dates from this"
"described as dropsy, severe edema that would be described today as congestive heart failure. He died on 21 December 1375 in Certaldo, where he is buried. See Consoli's bibliography for an exhaustive listing. Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (; ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including ""The Decameron"" and ""On Famous Women"". He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in the Italian vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue which differed"
"the Italian work, ""Decamerone"", a collection of a hundred novels, related by a party of men and women who retired to a villa near Florence to escape the plague in 1348. Novel-writing, so abundant in the preceding centuries, especially in France, now for the first time assumed an artistic shape. The style of Boccaccio tends to the imitation of Latin, but in him prose first took the form of elaborated art. The rudeness of the old ""fabliaux"" gives place to the careful and conscientious work of a mind that has a feeling for what is beautiful, that has studied the"
"Italian philologist Vittore Branca did a comprehensive survey of them and identified a few copied under Boccaccio's supervision; some have notes written in Boccaccio's hand. Two in particular have elaborate drawings, probably done by Boccaccio himself. Since these manuscripts were widely circulated, Branca thought that they influenced all subsequent illustrations. In 1962 Branca identified Codex Hamilton 90, in Berlin's Staatsbibliothek, as an autograph belonging to Boccaccio's latter years. (Rigg translation) (Rigg translation) The Decameron The Decameron (Italian title: ""Decameron"" or ""Decamerone"" ), subtitled ""Prince Galehaut"" (Old and sometimes nicknamed ""Umana commedia"", ""Human comedy""), is a collection of novellas by the"
"VI and further meetings with Petrarch, it is probable that Boccaccio took some kind of religious mantle. There is a persistent (but unsupported) tale that he repudiated his earlier works as profane in 1362, including ""The Decameron"". In 1360, Boccaccio began work on ""De mulieribus claris"", a book offering biographies of one hundred and six famous women, that he completed in 1374. A number of Boccaccio's close friends and other acquaintances were executed or exiled in the purge following the failed coup of 1361. It was in this year that Boccaccio left Florence to reside in Certaldo, although not directly"
"1360 with revisions and modifications up to 1374. For almost four hundred years this work was the better known of his material. The forceful written periodic Latin work was far more widely read then the now famous vernacular Tuscan/Italian tales of ""Decameron"". The Renaissance period saw the secular biography development which was spearheaded partly by the success of this work being a stimulus and driving force of the new biography-moral genre. Boccaccio's perspective focuses on the ""disastro"" awaiting all who are too favoured by luck and on the inevitable catastrophes awaiting those with great fortune. He offers a moral commentary"
"time. The work was largely complete by 1352. It was Boccaccio's final effort in literature and one of his last works in Italian; the only other substantial work was ""Corbaccio"" (dated to either 1355 or 1365). Boccaccio revised and rewrote ""The Decameron"" in 1370–1371. This manuscript has survived to the present day. From 1350, Boccaccio became closely involved with Italian humanism (although less of a scholar) and also with the Florentine government. His first official mission was to Romagna in late 1350. He revisited that city-state twice and also was sent to Brandenburg, Milan and Avignon. He also pushed for"
"invites him to revenge himself by using his skills as a writer to ""unmask"" the true nature of women. Still in the dream, the protagonist promises to do so and when he wakes up, in his room he finds himself healed of his troubles. The author concludes his work by warning the young against ""female wickedness"". Boccaccio is most famous as the author of ""The Decameron"" (completed c. 1351-2), another work of ambiguous interpretation regarding the ""dolce stil novo"" and the antifeminist counter argument. Regarding ""Il Corbaccio"", whether the novel's theme of misogyny is a detailed study of the attitude"
"When his wife discovers his intentions, she beats Calandrino. Calandrino became the main character in several artistic works, including: Calandrino was a historical person, an Italian Renaissance painter named Nozzo di Perino who lived in the fourteenth century. Whether he really was the simpleton portrayed by Boccaccio in his work is unknown, but common belief is that he was a bit gullible. It is unclear whether this belief arose because of the popularity of the ""Decameron"", or whether it was already popular belief when Boccaccio wrote the tales. Calandrino Calandrino is a character from Giovanni Boccaccio's the ""Decameron"", in which"
"The Ribald Decameron The Ribald Decameron (, also known as ""Love, Passion and Pleasure"") is a 1972 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Giuseppe Vari (here credited as Walter Pisani). Nominally based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel ""Decameron"", it is part of a series of derivative erotic comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's ""The Decameron"". In the Middle Ages, the intrepid Cecco earns eating in taverns and squares as a novelist. His specialty is to re-read the ""Decameron"" of Boccaccio, narrating the stories most erotic and licentious, whose theme loves of nuns and friars, and rich"
"to be the first person in Idaho to be infected by bubonic plague in nearly 30 years. The scale of death and social upheaval associated with plague outbreaks has made the topic prominent in a number of historical and fictional accounts since the disease was first recognized. The Black Death in particular is described and referenced in numerous contemporary sources, some of which, including works by Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Petrarch, are considered part of the Western canon. The Decameron, by Boccaccio, is notable for its use of a frame story involving individuals who have fled Florence for a secluded villa"
"women who want to fool theIR old husbands with bold boys. The Ribald Decameron The Ribald Decameron (, also known as ""Love, Passion and Pleasure"") is a 1972 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Giuseppe Vari (here credited as Walter Pisani). Nominally based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel ""Decameron"", it is part of a series of derivative erotic comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's ""The Decameron"". In the Middle Ages, the intrepid Cecco earns eating in taverns and squares as a novelist. His specialty is to re-read the ""Decameron"" of Boccaccio, narrating the stories most erotic"
"Decameron Nights Decameron Nights is a 1953 anthology Technicolor film based on three tales from ""The Decameron"" by Giovanni Boccaccio, specifically the ninth and tenth tales of the second day and the ninth tale of the third. It stars Joan Fontaine and, as Boccaccio, Louis Jourdan. In the mid-fourteenth century, Boccaccio seeks his true love, the recently widowed Fiametta (Joan Fontaine), and finds that she has fled Florence, plague-ridden and being sacked by an invading army, for a villa in the countryside with several female companions. When he shows up on her doorstep, Fiametta does not want to invite him"
"speakers discussing each other's stories) lies in their ""performability"" by someone reading out loud to a non-literate public and in their grab-bag and (frequently) digressive structure: these tales are capable of taking on all kinds of material, both sophisticated and vulgar. The ""Decameron"", the short story collection by the Italian author Boccaccio — with its frame tale of nobles fleeing the plague and telling each other stories — had an enormous impact on French writers. The sister of Francis I, Marguerite of Navarre — who was the center of a progressive literary circle — undertook her own version (""the Heptameron"")"
"first, then gives in. Decameron Nights Decameron Nights is a 1953 anthology Technicolor film based on three tales from ""The Decameron"" by Giovanni Boccaccio, specifically the ninth and tenth tales of the second day and the ninth tale of the third. It stars Joan Fontaine and, as Boccaccio, Louis Jourdan. In the mid-fourteenth century, Boccaccio seeks his true love, the recently widowed Fiametta (Joan Fontaine), and finds that she has fled Florence, plague-ridden and being sacked by an invading army, for a villa in the countryside with several female companions. When he shows up on her doorstep, Fiametta does not"
"Boccaccio (operetta) Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo (""Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palermo"") is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on ""The Decameron"" by Giovanni Boccaccio. The opera was first performed at the Carltheater, Vienna, on 1 February 1879. An English translation was done by Oscar Weil and Gustav Hinrichs around 1883. In early-Renaissance Florence, the erotic novellas of the poet Boccaccio cause a stir and"
"(1313–1375) shows us the ""carola"" in Florence in the Decameron (about 1350–1353) which has several passages describing men and women dancing to their own singing or accompanied by musicians. Boccaccio also uses two other terms for contemporary dances, ""ridda"" and ""ballonchio"", both of which refer to round dances with singing. Approximately contemporary with the ""Decameron"" are a series of frescos in Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted about 1338–40, one of which shows a group of women doing a ""bridge"" figure while accompanied by another woman playing the tambourine. In a life of Saint Dunstan composed about 1000, the author tells"
"Giovanni del Virgilio (floruit 1319-1327) who gives us the earliest mention of Italian folk dance. He describes a group of women leaving a beastly church in Bologna at the festa of San Giovanni; they form a circle with the leader singing the first stanza at the end of which the dancers stop and, dropping hands, sing the refrain. The circle then reforms and the leader goes on to the next stanza. However, it is Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) who illustrates the social function of dance in the Decameron (about 1350-1353). In Boccaccio's masterpiece, a group of men and women have traveled"
"that vernacular fictional prose was not a respected genre in 14th century Italy and some of the criticisms Boccaccio combats in the introduction to the fourth day were common attitudes towards the genre. Others, however, were specific to the ""Decameron"" itself. One criticism of the latter type was that it was not healthy for a man of Boccaccio's age – approximately 38 – to associate with young ladies, to whom the work is supposedly written. To defend against this criticism (which would never really enter into the thoughts of a real critic of the day) Boccaccio tells a story explaining"
"and shows her children, now grown up, and honours her, and causes her to be honoured, as Marchioness. Dioneo tells the final (and possibly most retold) story of the ""Decameron"". Although Boccaccio was the first to record the story, he almost certainly did not invent it. Petrarch mentions having heard it many years before, but not from Boccaccio. Therefore, it was probably already circulating in oral tradition when the ""Decameron"" was written. Petrarch later retold the story in Latin, which is probably the biggest factor that contributed to its huge popularity in subsequent centuries. The work concludes rather abruptly. Boccaccio,"
"Castruccio Castracani. In the following years the area upon which Viareggio would eventually be built was marked by a number of minor battles, invasions and pillages. In addition, the area was also affected by the pestilence which, recounted by Giovanni Boccaccio in his masterpiece the ""Decameron"", spread throughout the whole of Italy. In these years Florence expanded its control over Tuscany. Lucca, however, managed to maintain its independence in exchange for hefty financial penalties. On September 10, 1513, Pope Leo X removed the port of Motrone from the control of Lucca. This directly affected the future of Viareggio which, from"
"loyalty. Beyond the unity provided by the frame narrative, the ""Decameron"" provides a unity in philosophical outlook. Throughout runs the common medieval theme of Lady Fortune, and how quickly one can rise and fall through the external influences of the ""Wheel of Fortune"". Boccaccio had been educated in the tradition of Dante's ""Divine Comedy"", which used various levels of allegory to show the connections between the literal events of the story and the Christian message. However, the ""Decameron"" uses Dante's model not to educate the reader but to satirize this method of learning. The Roman Catholic Church, priests, and religious"
"story themes and plots through European sources containing reworked and translated Eastern tales. One source being Giovanni Boccaccio's ""The Decameron."" Boccaccio (d.1375) freely admits that his frame story collection of a hundred tales is heavily influenced by earlier stories. Many of these have origins in Arab (including Spanish-Moorish), Persian and Sanskrit literature. Aspects of ""Cymbeline,"" for example, are recognisable in ""The Decameron"" story II 9. Khulusi adds that some of the details in plays such as ""Macbeth,"" ""Othello"" and ""The Merchant of Venice"" have such a close affinity to their Eastern counterparts, that these details must have been sourced from"
"the model used successfully by authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Charles Dickens. The authors themselves have stressed the influence of the Italian philosophical novel of the 19th century, Alessandro Manzoni´s “The Betrothed”. Noting that Boccaccio divides his narrative up into days in ‘’The Decameron”, as well as in the Germanic ‘Bildungsroman’. The novel was first published in Italian in March 2002 after the rights were bought by the publishing house, Mondadori (owned by Fininvest). It was reported as the fourth bestselling book at the time, and led to a second edition. Although the story itself is fiction, many of"
"Villa Palmieri, Fiesole Villa Palmieri is a patrician villa in the Fiesole, central Italy, that overlooks Florence. The villa's gardens on slopes below the piazza S. Domenico of Fiesole are credited with being the paradisal setting for the frame story of Boccaccio's ""Decameron"". The villa was certainly in existence at the end of the 14th century, when it was a possession of the Fini, who sold it in 1454 to the noted humanist scholar Matteo di Marco Palmieri, whose name it still bears. In 1697, Palmiero Palmieri commenced a restructuring of the gardens, sweeping away all vestiges of the earlier"
"Neocastro disseminated in caustic tones, also seems to reverberate in Boccaccio's storytelling, with enormous difference of tones and accents, in a much more idealized and rarefied courtly and knightly context in the ""Decameron"": the tale of Lisa Puccini's forlorn love for King Peter of ""Raona"" (Aragon). Her family was of very humble social extraction, and initially experienced distressed economic conditions, from which they would be able to skillfully free themselves thanks to an unstoppable social rise, whose apex was reached by Macalda. Her great-grandmother led her miserable existence exposed to the weather (""under the sun and the rain"") in front"
"visited other cities in northern Italy, he returned to Venice and became first organist at St. Mark's, which was at that time becoming one of the most distinguished musical institutions in Italy. He remained employed by St. Mark's for the rest of his life, and died in Venice in 1557. He wrote ""Rime"" and prose comedies, but he is best known by ""I Diporti"", a collection of stories after the model of Boccaccio's ""Decameron"" supposed to be told by a fowling-party weatherbound on an island in the Venetian lagoons. Of his compositions, a book of madrigals for five voices, published"
"for information was Giovanni Boccaccio's ""De mulieribus claris"" (On Famous Women), possibly in the French version, ""Des Cleres et Nobles Femmes"". This text was a biographical treatise on ancient famous women. Christine also cited from Boccaccio's ""Decameron"" in the latter stages of ""The City of Ladies"". The tales of Ghismonda and Lisabetta, for example, are quoted as coming from Boccaccio's ""Decameron"". Boccaccio's influence can be seen in Christine's stance on female education. In the tale of Rhea Ilia, Boccaccio advocates for young women's right to choose a secular or religious life. He states that it is harmful to place young"
"Certaldo Certaldo is a town and ""comune"" of Tuscany, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Florence, in the middle of Valdelsa. It is about southwest of the Florence Duomo. It is 50 minutes by rail and 35 minutes by car southwest of Florence, and it is 40 minutes by rail north of Siena. It was the home of the family of Giovanni Boccaccio, the author of the ""Decameron"". He died at his home in the town and was buried here in 1375. Also the actor Ernesto Calindri is born in Certaldo. The town of Certaldo is divided into upper and"