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In the early 1370s Boccaccio’s late illness and reduced means are reported before the Dante lectures break off

Late illness is a health path of high confidence on interruption of work, medium on exact disease name. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.

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Context

Shared friends’ financial help appears in some lives and remains shared.

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

Britannica and Decameron Web mark illness in the final years, including the break-off of the 1373 lectures. Exact pathophysiology (‘dropsy’) is handbook language, not a modern chart here. Death remains the 1375 row.

Why it matters

Late illness is a health path of high confidence on interruption of work, medium on exact disease name.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactIn the early 1370s Boccaccio’s late illness and reduced means are reported before the Dante lectures break off
    2. weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
    3. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 1372 · verified

    Late illness is a health path of high confidence on interruption of work, medium on exact disease name.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  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 late illness interrupting public work. Decameron Web independently closes with sickness at Certaldo.

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

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorGiovanni Boccaccio
  2. contributed toFactIn the early 1370s Boccaccio’s late illness and reduced means are reported before the Dante lectures break off
  3. weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). In the early 1370s Boccaccio’s late illness and reduced means are reported before the Dante lectures break off. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-late-illness-poverty

https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-late-illness-poverty

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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