# Petrarch dies in 1374; Boccaccio’s late letters register the loss of the magister-friend as received Date: 1374 ## The fact [Petrarch](/people/petrarch)’s Britannica page dates the 1374 death. Decameron Web independently keeps the lifelong friendship file through Boccaccio’s last years. It is one event. ## Context Losing the humanist magister is a cohesion-and-letters harm path for the small republic of letters. Shared disciples remain. Literary inheritance disputes are neighbouring reception. [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. Petrarch died 18/19 July 1374. Boccaccio’s response is epistolary and biographical neighbourhood, not a joint tomb. This is not Boccaccio’s death (1375). The friendship-opening row remains 1350. 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 — Petrarch and Decameron Web — Boccaccio’s life independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: Britannica — Petrarch (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance Petrarch’s death as Boccaccio’s loss is a cohesion-harm path of high confidence on the date of death, medium on every private letter’s wording here. ## 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 `social-cohesion` 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. Split from Boccaccio’s own 1375 death. Do not invent a will clause. 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 - Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch - https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-petrarch-death-1374