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

Date: 1372

## The fact

Britannica records late illness interrupting public work. Decameron Web independently closes with sickness at Certaldo.

It is one event.

## Context

Chronic illness that stops civic teaching is a health-capacity harm path. Shared friends’ financial help appears in some lives and remains shared. Do not invent a diagnosis code.

[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 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. Poverty is relative literary-client poverty, not a tax roll quoted in this catalog. Death remains the 1375 row.

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

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

## 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.

The driver `health-system-capacity` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. 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. 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

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## 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-late-illness-poverty