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

Date: 1373

## The fact

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.

It is one event.

## 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](/people/giovanni-boccaccio)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

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.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica — Giovanni Boccaccio and Decameron Web — Boccaccio’s life independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Giovanni Boccaccio (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

The 1373 lectures are a knowledge-access path of high confidence on the commission and start date in the standard file.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Giovanni Boccaccio.

They are not a public rating.

Giovanni Boccaccio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not treat unfinished Esposizioni as a complete Comedy commentary. Do not store 1375 death as a welfare killing. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Giovanni Boccaccio.

## People

- Giovanni Boccaccio: https://factrail.ai/people/giovanni-boccaccio

## Sources

- https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-dante-lectures-1373