# Giovanni Boccaccio 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 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 independently describes the hundred tales and plague frame. Decameron Web life at https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php 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/ is the public teaching file. Laurenziana at https://www.bmlonline.it/ is a Florentine manuscript neighbourhood, not a 1353 autograph of the whole Decameron in this catalog (the famous Hamilton autograph sits elsewhere). Petrarch at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch, Dante at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Alighieri, and the 14th-century humanism file at https://www.britannica.com/topic/humanism/The-14th-century 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 method: one book is one Fact. On source-distance: Decameron Web at https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php and the project home at https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/ are teaching files, not 1353 paper. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio and the Decameron article at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Decameron independently describe the hundred tales as one work. Petrarch at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch and Dante at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Alighieri 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 and Laurenziana at https://www.bmlonline.it/ 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. Remaining dated instruments kept: 1328 Naples; 1340 return; 1350 Petrarch; 1351 Padua; 1351 Trattatello; 1353 Decameron; 1360 Genealogia; 1360 Pilato; 1362 De mulieribus; 1365 Corbaccio; 1365 Avignon; 1373 lectures. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. ## Dated facts - Boccaccio dies at Certaldo on 21 December 1375 after illness interrupted the Dante lectures. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-death-1375. Sources: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio. - Petrarch dies in 1374; Boccaccio’s late letters register the loss of the magister-friend as received. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-petrarch-death-1374. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch, https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php. - 1374: Esposizioni sopra la Comedia remain as the written residue of the unfinished 1373–74 Dante readings. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-esposizioni-residue. Sources: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio. - 1374: Public Dante lectures break off after months through illness and faction as Decameron Web records. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-lectures-interrupted. Sources: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio. - Florence commissions public lectures on Dante; Boccaccio begins at Santo Stefano di Badia on 23 October 1373 and breaks off in illness. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-dante-lectures-1373. Sources: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio. - 1372: In the early 1370s Boccaccio’s late illness and reduced means are reported before the Dante lectures break off. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-late-illness-poverty. Sources: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio. - 1367: Florence uses Boccaccio on further diplomacy including a Venice neighbourhood mission in the later 1360s as received. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-venice-mission. Sources: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio. - 1367: Bucolicum carmen issues Latin eclogues under Boccaccio’s name as received. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-bucolicum-carmen. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio. - Florence sends Boccaccio to congratulate Urban V on the papacy’s return to Rome in 1367 as received. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-rome-1367. Sources: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio. - 1365: Florence sends Boccaccio on embassy toward Pope Urban V at Avignon in the mid-1360s as received. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-avignon-1365. Sources: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio. - 1365: Il Corbaccio issues a misogynist invective under Boccaccio’s name, a different book from De mulieribus. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-corbaccio. Sources: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/life1_en.php, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio. - 1364: De montibus compiles a Latin geographic-mythographic dictionary of mountains, forests, and waters as received. https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-de-montibus. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/topic/humanism/The-14th-century, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/giovanni-boccaccio