# Esposizioni sopra la Comedia remain as the written residue of the unfinished 1373–74 Dante readings

Date: 1374

## The fact

Britannica and Decameron Web independently treat the Esposizioni as the incomplete written companion to the lectures.

It is one event.

## Context

Even unfinished, a public vernacular exposition of Dante is a knowledge path. Faction and illness limited it — harm on the interruption row.

[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.

Written expositions survive for early Inferno cantos; the oral series broke off. This is the book-residue instrument, not the civic commission start and not the interruption harm as a twin of knowledge loss.

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

Esposizioni residue is a knowledge-access path of high confidence on incompleteness and existence.

## 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 claim a complete Comedy commentary. Split from lecture start and interruption. 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-esposizioni-residue