The poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), a native of Florence as well, lived in exile during Boccaccio’s day. He received a first-rate grammatical education from the notable Giovanni Mazzuoli da Strada. Ignoring the boy’s illegitimacy, his father accepted him into the household and provided him with all the material and moral advantages due to a son of the thriving new middle class at the time. We know nothing of Boccaccio’s mother, though there has been speculation that she was French. The illegitimate son of a partner in one of the city’s most important banking companies, the Bardi, he began his life when Florence was well on its way to becoming the capital of international European finance. Giovanni Boccaccio was probably born in 1313 in Florence. Seven young women and three young men meet in a church in Florence during the Black Death and decide to flee the city for the countryside, where they pass the late afternoon telling stories.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novellas A collection of 100 novel as set throughout the medieval world, recounted in Italian outside Florence during the plague of 1348 published in Italian in 1349-51, in English in 1620.
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