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Giovanni Boccaccio born in 1313 in Paris, he dies in 1375 in Certaldo, Tuscany in Italy. He was an Italian poet and scholar. He's mostly remembered for his work "The earthy tales in the Decameron". With Petrarch he laid the foundations for the humanism of the Renaissance and raised vernacular literature to the level and status of the classics of antiquity.
He was the sun of a merchant based in Tuscany Boccaccio di Chellino (called Boccaccino), his mother was probably French. He passed his early childhood rather unhappily in Florence. His father had no sympathy for Boccaccio’s literary inclinations and sent him, not later than 1328, to Naples to learn business, probably in an office of the Bardi, who dominated the court of Naples by means of their loans.. He also studied canon law and mixed with the learned men of the court and the friends and admirers of Petrarch, through whom he came to know the work of Petrarch himself.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Probably during 1348–53 Boccaccio composed the Decameron in the form in which it is read today. In the broad sweep of its range and its alternately tragic and comic views of life, it is rightly regarded as his masterpiece. In regards to style it is considered to be the epitome of Italian classical prose, and its influence on Renaissance literature throughout Europe was enormous
Boccaccio and the Renaissance.
Boccaccio was a Renaissance man in every way possible .
The humanism within in was not only inclined towards classical studies and to rediscover and reinterpret ancient texts but also the try to raise literature in the modern languages to the level of the classical by setting standards for it and then conforming to those standards. Boccaccio advanced further than his mentor Petrarch in this direction not only because he sought to dignify prose as well as poetry.
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