"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"
"Amorosa visione Amorosa visione (1342, revised c. 1365) is a narrative poem by Boccaccio, full of echoes of the ""Divine Comedy"" and consisting of 50 canti in ""terza rima"". It tells of a dream in which the poet sees, in sequence, the triumphs of Wisdom, Earthly Glory, Wealth, Love, all-destroying Fortune (and her servant Death), and thereby becomes worthy of the now heavenly love of Fiammetta. The triumphs include mythological, classical and contemporary medieval figures. Their moral, cultural and historical architecture was without precedent, and led Petrarch to create his own ""Trionfi"" on the same model. Among contemporaries Giotto and"
"place among prose romances. In it Boccaccio tells the loves of Florio and Biancafiore. Probably for this work he drew materials from a popular source or from a Byzantine romance, which Leonzio Pilato may have mentioned to him. In the ""Filocopo"", there is a remarkable exuberance in the mythological part, which damages the romance as an artistic work, but contributes to the history of Boccaccio's mind. The ""Fiammetta"" is another romance, about the loves of Boccaccio and Maria d'Aquino, a supposed natural daughter of King Robert, whom he always called by this name of Fiammetta. Boccaccio became famous principally for"
"Boccaccio, has been called ""an improbable and escapist drama"" comparable to Beaumont and Fletcher's ""A King and No King"" and other plays of its period. Other critics, though, have seen in the play the ""un-Fletcherian moral earnestness"" typical of Massinger. It has been argued that a passage in ""The Maid of Honour"" served as a source for ""The Definition of Love,"" one of Andrew Marvell's most famous poems. The Maid of Honour ""For attendants upon a queen in the royal households, see Maids of Honour"" The Maid of Honour is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Philip"
"Dante stand out, the latter being celebrated above any other artist, ancient or modern. Amorosa visione Amorosa visione (1342, revised c. 1365) is a narrative poem by Boccaccio, full of echoes of the ""Divine Comedy"" and consisting of 50 canti in ""terza rima"". It tells of a dream in which the poet sees, in sequence, the triumphs of Wisdom, Earthly Glory, Wealth, Love, all-destroying Fortune (and her servant Death), and thereby becomes worthy of the now heavenly love of Fiammetta. The triumphs include mythological, classical and contemporary medieval figures. Their moral, cultural and historical architecture was without precedent, and led"
"1373 and these resulted in his final major work, the detailed ""Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante"". Boccaccio and Petrarch were also two of the most educated people in early Renaissance in the field of archaeology. Boccaccio's change in writing style in the 1350s was due in part to meeting with Petrarch, but it was mostly due to poor health and a premature weakening of his physical strength. It also was due to disappointments in love. Some such disappointment could explain why Boccaccio came suddenly to write in a bitter ""Corbaccio"" style, having previously written always in praise of women"
"the Christian world of the Middle Ages. His depiction of Cleopatra and Antony, her shining knight engaged in courtly love, has been interpreted in modern times as being either playful or misogynistic satire. However, Chaucer highlighted Cleopatra's relationships with only two men as hardly the life of a seductress and wrote his works partly in reaction to the negative depiction of Cleopatra in and , Latin works by the 14th-century Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio. The Renaissance humanist , in his 1504 ""Libretto apologetico delle donne"", was the first Italian to defend the reputation of Cleopatra and criticize the perceived moralizing"
"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"
"comedy as ""a general term for comedies that deal mainly with the follies and misunderstandings of young lovers, in a light‐hearted and happily concluded manner which usually avoids serious satire"". This reference states that the ""best‐known examples are Shakespeare's comedies of the late 1590s, ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", ""Twelfth Night"", and ""As You Like It"" being the most purely romantic, while ""Much Ado About Nothing"" approaches the comedy of manners and ""The Merchant of Venice"" is closer to tragicomedy."" Comedies since ancient Greece have often incorporated sexual or social elements. It was not until the creation of romantic love in"
"modern Italian . The adjective was added by Giovanni Boccaccio, and the first edition to name the poem ""Divina Comedia"" in the title was that of the Venetian humanist Lodovico Dolce, published in 1555 by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari. The ""Divine Comedy"" is composed of 14,233 lines that are divided into three ""cantiche"" (singular ""cantica"") – ""Inferno"" (Hell), ""Purgatorio"" (Purgatory), and ""Paradiso"" (Paradise) – each consisting of 33 cantos (Italian plural ""canti""). An initial canto, serving as an introduction to the poem and generally considered to be part of the first ""cantica"", brings the total number of cantos to 100."
"Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta, or The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta in English, is a novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344. Written in the form of a first-person confessional monologue, it describes the protagonist, Fiammetta's, passion for Panfilo, a Florentine merchant, and takes place in Naples. It has been characterised as the first psychological novel in Western literature. It consists of a prologue and nine chapters. Lady Fiammetta recounts her tragic love affair with Panfilo, offering it as a warning to other women. Lady Fiammetta and Panfilo quickly fall in"
"of Petrarch to Naples in 1341. He had left Naples due to tensions between the Angevin king and Florence. His father had returned to Florence in 1338, where he had gone bankrupt. His mother died shortly afterward (possibly, as she was unknown — see above). Boccaccio continued to work, although dissatisfied with his return to Florence, producing ""Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine"" in 1341 (also known as ""Ameto""), a mix of prose and poems, completing the fifty-canto allegorical poem ""Amorosa visione"" in 1342, and ""Fiammetta"" in 1343. The pastoral piece ""Ninfale fiesolano"" probably dates from this time, also. In 1343, Boccaccio's"
"which were popular throughout the medieval period. When his writings were read in the later Middle Ages, it was mostly his ""Letters to Lucilius""—the longer essays and plays being relatively unknown. Medieval writers and works continued to link him to Christianity because of his alleged association with Paul. The ""Golden Legend"", a 13th-century hagiographical account of famous saints which was widely read, included an account of Seneca's death scene, and erroneously presented Nero as a witness to Seneca's suicide. Dante placed Seneca (alongside Cicero) among the ""great spirits"" in the First Circle of Hell, or Limbo. Boccaccio, who in 1370"
"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"
"was Petrarch. Guido Guinizelli is considered the founder of the ""Dolce Stil Novo"", a school that added a philosophical dimension to traditional love poetry. This new understanding of love, expressed in a smooth, pure style, influenced Guido Cavalcanti and the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri, who established the basis of the modern Italian language; his greatest work, the ""Divine Comedy"", is considered among the foremost literary statements produced in Europe during the Middle Ages; furthermore, the poet invented the difficult ""terza rima"". The two great writers of the 14th century, Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, sought out and imitated the works of"
"The Facetious Nights of Straparola The Facetious Nights of Straparola (1550-1555; Italian: Le piacevoli notti), also known as The Nights of Straparola, is a two-volume collection of 75 stories by Italian author and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola. Modeled after Boccaccio's ""Decameron"", it is significant as often being called the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales; it would influence later fairy-tale authors like Charles Perrault and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. ""The Facetious Nights of Straparola"" was first published in Italy between 1550–53 under the title ""Le piacevoli notti"" (""""The Pleasant Nights"""") containing 74 stories. In 1555 the stories were published"
"stories). They were originally 300 in number, but today only 258 remain, the rest having been lost. They were not fitted into any framework like that of Boccaccio's ""Decameron"". The best of them are of a humorous character; and their style is more simple and colloquial than Boccaccio's. The story given as a specimen probably exists (under one form or another) in the folk tales of every European nation. Sacchetti died at San Miniato around 1400. Franco Sacchetti Franco Sacchetti (; c. 1335 – c. 1400), was an Italian poet and novelist. Born in Florence or in Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik),"
"(pp. 1 - 392); Notes to the Text (pp. 393-405); Notes to the Glosses (pp. 407-416). Teseida Teseida (full title: Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia, or The Theseid, Concerning the Nuptials of Emily) is a long epic poem written by Giovanni Boccaccio c.1340–41. Running to almost 10,000 lines divided into twelve books, its notional subject is the career and rule of the ancient Greek hero Theseus (Teseo), although the majority of the epic tells the story of the rivalry of Palemone and Arcita for the love of Emilia. It is the main source of ""The Knight's Tale"" in Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury"
"""Giulietta e Romeo"" and later as ""Historia novellamente ritrovata di due nobili amanti"" (""Newly retrieved story of two noble lovers""). These three stories, plus another later version by Matteo Bandello and the English translation by Arthur Brooke in the poem ""Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet"" (1562) appear to be the sources for Shakespeare's famous play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Masuccio Salernitano Masuccio Salernitano (1410–1475), born Tommaso Guardati, was an Italian poet. Born in Salerno or Sorrento, he is best known today for ""Il Novellino"", a collection of 50 ""novelle"" or short stories, each prefaced by a letter of dedication to"
"The Filocolo The Filocolo (orig. "" Il Filocolo"") is a novel written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1335-36. It is considered to be the first novel of Italian literature written in prose. It is based on a very popular story of the time, ""Florio e Biancifiore"". ""The Franklin's Tale"" of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales"" is based on ""The Filocolo"". This work dates from Boccaccio's youth; it was written during his stay in Naples in 1336. The two protagonists are Florio, son of the King of Spain, and Biancifiore, an orphan. Having grown up together they are in love, and they"
"his age or before. He is first guided by the Roman poet Virgil, whose non-Christian beliefs damned him to Hell. Later on he is joined by Beatrice, who guides him through Heaven. In the 14th century, Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio led the literary scene in Florence after Dante's death in 1321. Petrarch was an all-rounder writer, author and poet, but was particularly known for his ""Canzoniere"", or the Book of Songs, where he conveyed his unremitting love for Laura. His style of writing has since become known as ""Petrarchism"". Boccaccio was better known for his ""Decameron"", a slightly grim story"
"Genealogia Deorum Gentilium Genealogia deorum gentilium, known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and Rome, written in Latin prose from 1360 onwards by the Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. The work is ""humanist in spirit and medieval in structure"". According to the Preface Boccaccio undertook the project at the request of Hugh IV of Cyprus. The first version was completed in 1360, and he continuously corrected and revised the work until his death in 1374,"
"Capella, and Fulgentius, but toward the end of the 6th century lapsed into obscurity and survived what was formerly known as the ""Dark Ages"" through perhaps a single manuscript. The ""Metamorphoses"" remained unknown in the 13th century, but copies had begun to circulate in the mid-1300s among the early humanists in Florence. Boccaccio's text and interpretation of ""Cupid and Psyche"" in his ""Genealogia deorum gentilium"" (written in the 1370s and published 1472) was a major impetus to the reception of the tale in the Italian Renaissance and to its dissemination throughout Europe. One of the most popular images from the"
"love poems in Tuscan, which was not unprecedented; the vernacular had been regularly used for lyric works before, during all the thirteenth century. However, Dante's commentary on his own work is also in the vernacular—both in the ""Vita Nuova"" and in the ""Convivio""—instead of the Latin that was almost universally used. Dante Alighieri Durante degli Alighieri (), commonly known by his short name Dante Alighieri or simply as Dante (; , ; – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His ""Divine Comedy"", originally called ' (modern Italian: ""Commedia"") and later christened ' by Giovanni Boccaccio,"
"Corbaccio Il Corbaccio, or ""The Crow"", is an Italian literary work by Giovanni Boccaccio, traditionally dated c. 1355. The work is narrated in the first person and opens with a justification (it is not a real prologue) in which the author declares that he wishes his narrative to be a consolation to those who read it, such as he found thanks to God and the intercession of Our Lady. The protagonist, desperate because of the unreturned love of a widow, calls on Death, falls asleep and dreams. In his dream appears a man who declares himself to be the deceased"
"Dante Alighieri's ""Divine Comedy"", written in the early 14th century, merged a medieval world view with classical ideals. Another promoter of the Italian language was Boccaccio with his ""Decameron"". The application of the vernacular did not entail a rejection of Latin, and both Dante and Boccaccio wrote prolifically in Latin as well as Italian, as would Petrarch later (whose ""Canzoniere"" also promoted the vernacular and whose contents are considered the first modern lyric poems). Together the three poets established the Tuscan dialect as the norm for the modern Italian language. The new literary style spread rapidly, and in France influenced"
"his translation of the ""Roman de la Rose"", which he must have commenced in the lifetime of its author Jean de Meung. During the Bavarian period (1349–1433), very little original writing of much value was produced in Holland. Towards the end of the 14th century, an erotic poet of considerable power arose in the person of the lord of Waddinxveen, Dirc Potter van der Loo (c. 1365–1428), who was secretary at the court of the counts of Holland. During an embassy in Rome, this eminent diplomat made himself acquainted with the writings of Giovanni Boccaccio and commenced a vast poem,"
"of romance, but with ironic, satiric, or burlesque intent. Romances reworked legends, fairy tales, and history to suit the readers' and hearers' tastes, but by c. 1600 they were out of fashion, and Miguel de Cervantes famously burlesqued them in his novel ""Don Quixote"". Still, the modern image of ""medieval"" is more influenced by the romance than by any other medieval genre, and the word ""medieval"" evokes knights, distressed damsels, dragons, and other romantic tropes. Originally, romance literature was written in Old French, Anglo-Norman, Occitan, and Provençal, and later in Portuguese, Castilian, English, Italian (Sicilian poetry), and German. During the"
"official favor; however, the poem remained a popular piece of Latin literature for many centuries, a testimony to its literary merit and lasting appeal. A commentary on the ""Thebaid"" is transmitted under the name of Lactantius Placidus, dating from the 5th or 6th century AD, which has proven useful to modern scholars. In the late 12th century a French verse romance, ""Le roman de Thèbes"", was composed by an unknown author, probably at the court of Henry II of England. Here the ""Thebaid"" is transformed into a chivalric epic. Giovanni Boccaccio, the 14th-century Italian poet and author best known for"
"Divine Comedy The Divine Comedy ( ) is an Italian long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the preeminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written (also in most present-day Italian-market editions), as the standardized Italian language. It is"
"200 humorous and mocking sonnets in the style of Burchiello and four carnival songs. About fifteen years later Braccesi added around nineteen elegies and thirty-five sonnets to the canzoniere. In 1477 he collected all his Latin poems into a three-volume manuscript. The first volume entitled ""Amorum libellus"" was dedicated to Francesco Sassetti and consisted of 29 elegies narrating his love for a woman known pseudonymously as Flora, in imitation of Cristoforo Landino's 'Xandra'. The second book, ""Secundus libellus elegiarum ad amicos"", contained twelve poems about everyday life, each dedicated to a different public figure in Florentine life. The third book,"
"1150–1220. From around 1200 on, the tendency was increasingly to write the romances in prose (many of the earlier verse romances were adapted into prose versions), although new verse romances continued to be written to the end of the 14th century. The most important romance of the 13th century is the ""Romance of the Rose"" which breaks considerably from the conventions of the chivalric adventure story. Medieval French lyric poetry was indebted to the poetic and cultural traditions in Southern France and Provence—including Toulouse, Poitiers, and the Aquitaine region—where ""langue d'oc"" was spoken (Occitan language); in their turn, the Provençal"
"of translation and their Italian texts. ""The Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta Sent by Her to Women in Love"", by Roberta L. Payne and Alexandra Hennessey Olsenhope, is aimed at a popular audience. The Mariangela Causa-Steindler and Thomas Mauch translation, ""The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta"", is more scholarly. Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta, or The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta in English, is a novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344. Written in the form of a first-person confessional monologue, it describes the protagonist, Fiammetta's, passion for Panfilo, a Florentine merchant, and takes"