Boccaccio, Giovanni
lived 1313 - 1375
One of the “three crowns” of Italian literature (along with his contemporary Petrarch and his near contemporary Dante Alighieri), Boccaccio wrote prose and poetry in vernacular Italian. He is best known for his Decameron, which relates stories told by a group of aristocrats who have fled the plague in Florence. Known for his witty dialogue and inclusion of risque material, Boccaccio remained influential into the fifteenth century among Italian authors.
For more information, please see:
- A website run through Brown University’s department of Italian Studies devoted to Boccaccio
- Wright, Herbert G., ed., Forty-Six Lives Translated from Boccaccio's De Claris Mulieribus
- Cassell, Anthony K ed., trans., The Corbaccio
- Nichols, J. G., Life of Dante
- Rigg, J. M., trans., The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
- McWilliam, G.H., trans., The Decameron
- Griffin, Nathaniel Edward, trans.; Myrick, Arthur Beckwith, trans., The Filostrato of Giovanni Boccaccio
- Blamires, Alcuin, ed; Pratt, Karen ed.; Marx, C.W. ed., Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts
- Horrox, Rosemary, trans., The Black Death
- Brogan, James C., trans., La Fiammetta
- Rossetti, William Michael, trans., Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde Compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato
- The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, De mulieribus claris
- Cassell, Anthony K. and Victoria Kirkham, trans., Diana's Hunt/Caccia di Diana: Boccaccio's First Fiction
- Wright, Herbert G., ed., Early English versions of the tales of Guiscardo and Ghismonda and Titus and Gisippus from the Decameron
- Gordon, R.K., ed., The Story of Troilus
- Ross, James Bruce, ed.; McLaughlin, Mary Martin, ed., The Portable Renaissance Reader
- Amtower, Laurel, and Vanhoutte, Jacqueline, eds. and trans., A Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries
- Black, Joseph, et al., The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1, The Medieval Period
- Reedy, Jeremiah, ed., Bocaccio in Defence of Poetry: Genealogiae Deorum Gentilium Liber XIV
- Osgood, Charles G., Boccacio on Poetry: Being the Preface and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Books of Boccaccio's "Genealogia Deorum Gentilium"
- Aberth, John, ed., trans., The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History with Documents
- Collette, Carolyn P. and Harold Garrett-Goodyear, The Later Middle Ages: A Sourcebook
- Larrington, Carolyne, Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook
- Rebhorn, Wayne A., The Decameron
- Papio, Michael, trans., Boccaccio's Expositions on Dante's Comedy
- Lynch, Kathryn L. ed., Geoffrey Chaucer: Dream Visions and Other Poems
