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Florence commissions public lectures on Dante; Boccaccio begins at Santo Stefano di Badia on 23 October 1373 and breaks off in illness

A commune paying a hundred florins for public Dante is a knowledge path and a late rehabilitation of an exile’s poem.

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Context

A commune paying a hundred florins for public Dante is a knowledge path and a late rehabilitation of an exile’s poem. Guelf opposition is named in the life page as a limit. Shared arrangement by friends remains.

Giovanni Boccaccio’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Britannica: October 1373, public readings of the Comedy in the Church of Santo Stefano di Badia. Decameron Web: first lecture 23 October 1373, interrupted after months. Esposizioni sopra la Comedia are the written residue, stopped around Inferno XVII. Later print is evidence.

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  1. 1.Decameron Web — Boccaccio’s lifeBrown University / Decameron Web · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Giovanni BoccaccioEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica records the 1373 public Dante readings. Decameron Web independently dates the first lecture to 23 October 1373 and the interruption by illness and faction.

Giovanni Boccaccio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

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Factrail. (2026). Florence commissions public lectures on Dante; Boccaccio begins at Santo Stefano di Badia on 23 October 1373 and breaks off in illness. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-dante-lectures-1373

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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