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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

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Writer and humanist (1313–1375) whose Naples youth, 1340 Florence return, Decameron c. 1349–53, Petrarch friendship, Florentine missions, Genealogia, De mulieribus, Corbaccio, and 1373 Dante lectures reach the public through Laurenziana portals, Decameron Web, and Britannica. Later editions are not his acts.

Vernacular novelle after the 1348 plague as a Florentine prose instrumentPetrarchan humanist Latin and Greek studypublic promotion of Dante including the 1373 lectures

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a marble raconteur and not a living friend of Dante. The heaviest documented costs in public English are the 1340 Bardi-linked return as a household fiscal shock and Corbaccio as invective. The offsets are Naples formation, the Decameron as one book, Petrarch, communal missions, Dante promotion, Greek, Genealogia, De mulieribus, and the 1373 lectures. He did not typeset later editions. Confidence is high on 1350 and 1373, medium on chair titles.

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Responsibility

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  • 19 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1328–1375).

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  1. PersonGiovanni Boccaccio
  2. FactBoccaccio dies at Certaldo on 21 December 1375 after illness interrupted the Dante lectures
  3. DriverHealth system capacity stress
  1. PersonGiovanni Boccaccio
  2. FactPetrarch dies in 1374; Boccaccio’s late letters register the loss of the magister-friend as received
  3. DriverSocial Cohesion
  1. PersonGiovanni Boccaccio
  2. FactPublic Dante lectures break off after months through illness and faction as Decameron Web records
  3. DriverLabour-Market Tightness

Timeline

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  1. 21 December 1375 · Health system capacity stress

    Boccaccio dies at Certaldo on 21 December 1375 after illness interrupted the Dante lectures

  2. 19 July 1374 · Social Cohesion

    Petrarch dies in 1374; Boccaccio’s late letters register the loss of the magister-friend as received

  3. 1 June 1374

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

  4. 1 January 1374 · Labour-Market Tightness

    Public Dante lectures break off after months through illness and faction as Decameron Web records

  5. 23 October 1373

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

  6. 1 January 1372 · Humanitarian Access

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

Evidence & methodology

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32 of 32 linked facts verified, drawing on 6 distinct sources (1328–1375).

Sources include Encyclopaedia Britannica, Brown University / Decameron Web.

Sources

  1. 1.Britannica — Giovanni BoccaccioEncyclopaedia Britannica
  2. 2.Decameron Web — Boccaccio’s lifeBrown University / Decameron Web
  3. 3.Britannica — PetrarchEncyclopaedia Britannica
  4. 4.Britannica — humanism, 14th centuryEncyclopaedia Britannica
  5. 5.Britannica — DecameronEncyclopaedia Britannica
  6. 6.Britannica — Dante Alighieri, Florentine political careerEncyclopaedia Britannica

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 6

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Boccaccio in a public catalog is a vernacular book written after a plague year and a friendship with Petrarch, not a marble storyteller whose later printers are his hands. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio (opens in a new tab) places Naples by 1328, a 1340 Florence return amid Bardi failure, presence in Florence in 1348, Decameron, Petrarch, Latin encyclopedias, and October 1373 Dante readings at Santo Stefano di Badia, with death at Certaldo on 21 December 1375. The Decameron article at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Decameron (opens in a new tab) independently describes the hundred tales and plague frame. Decameron Web life at https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php (opens in a new tab) dates 1350 Petrarch, 1351 Padua, Trattatello, Genealogia from 1350, and the 23 October 1373 lecture. The project home at https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/ (opens in a new tab) is the public teaching file. Petrarch at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch (opens in a new tab), Dante at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Alighieri (opens in a new tab), and the 14th-century humanism file at https://www.britannica.com/topic/humanism/The-14th-century (opens in a new tab) bound the intellectual relations. Corbaccio is a rights-harm book and must not be rebate-merged with De mulieribus. What the score must not say: that he met Dante; that 1348 is a death register he signed; that each novella is a Fact; that later English or 16th-century print is 1353; that Shakespeare’s use of Filostrato is Boccaccio’s act. Offsets: Naples letters, Decameron as one book, Petrarch, communal diplomacy, Dante promotion, Greek through Pilato, Genealogia, De mulieribus, 1373 lectures. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on 1350, 1353 as received completion window, and 1373-10-23, medium on exact Bardi title and Pilato’s chair wording. Related people are Petrarch, Dante as intellectual not living affiliate, Acciaioli, Giovanna I of Naples, Leonzio Pilato, Boccaccino, Urban V, Robert of Naples. On source-distance: Decameron Web at https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php (opens in a new tab) and the project home at https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/ (opens in a new tab) are teaching files, not 1353 paper. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio (opens in a new tab) and the Decameron article at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Decameron (opens in a new tab) independently describe the hundred tales as one work. Petrarch at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch (opens in a new tab) and Dante at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Alighieri (opens in a new tab) mark the two relations that must not be flattened: living friendship versus posthumous promotion. Humanism’s 14th-century file at https://www.britannica.com/topic/humanism/The-14th-century (opens in a new tab) and Laurenziana at https://www.bmlonline.it/ (opens in a new tab) are neighbourhood evidence. Hamilton 90 is not stored as a lifetime Fact of scanning. A Shakespeare article is skipped as a weak extra. Empty news is honest. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts.

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