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of 1340 in that city, but also missing the visit of
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October 1350, he was delegated to greet Francesco Petrarch as he entered Florence and also to have Petrarch as a guest at Boccaccio's home, during his stay. The meeting between the two was extremely fruitful and they were friends from then on, Boccaccio calling Petrarch his teacher and
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Boccaccio enjoyed law no more than banking, but his studies allowed him the opportunity to study widely and make good contacts with fellow scholars. His early influences included Paolo da Perugia (a curator and author of a collection of
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to a more ascetic style, closer to the dominant fourteenth-century ethos. For example, he followed
Petrarch (and Dante) in the unsuccessful championing of an archaic and deeply allusive form of Latin poetry. In 1359, following a meeting with
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in 1343. The pastoral piece "Ninfale fiesolano" probably dates from this time, also. In 1343, Boccaccio's father remarried Bice del
Bostichi. The other children by his first marriage had all died, but he had another son named Iacopo in 1344.
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Boccaccio's close friends and other acquaintances were executed or exiled in the purge following the failed coup of 1361; although not directly linked to the conspiracy, in that year Boccaccio left Florence to reside in
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of three men and seven women dates from this time. The work was largely complete by 1352. It was
Boccaccio's final effort in literature and one of his last works in Tuscan vernacular; the only other substantial work was
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who usually followed formulaic models for character and plot. The influence of
Boccaccio's works was not limited to the Italian cultural scene but extended to the rest of Europe, exerting influence on authors such as
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and further meetings with
Petrarch, it is probable that Boccaccio took some kind of religious mantle. There is a persistent (but unsupported) tale that he repudiated his earlier works as profane in 1362, including
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in 1351, Boccaccio on an official mission to invite Petrarch to take a chair at the university in Florence. Although unsuccessful, the discussions between the two were instrumental in Boccaccio writing the
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and, in the 1320s, married Margherita dei Mardoli, who was of a well-to-do family. Boccaccio may have been tutored by Giovanni Mazzuoli and received from him an early introduction to the works of
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around 1349. It is probable that the structures of many of the tales date from earlier in his career, but the choice of a hundred tales and the frame-story
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city. His father died in 1349 and Boccaccio was forced into a more active role as head of the family.
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Bartlett, Kenneth R. (1992). "Florence in the Renaissance".
1611:"IntraText Digital Library: Author Card: Giovanni Boccaccio"
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1549:"Encyclopedia of medieval literature – Boccaccio, Giovanni"
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Italy's three crowns: reading Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
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2405:De remediis utriusque fortunae
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1984:(public domain audiobooks)
1978:Works by Giovanni Boccaccio
1964:"Boccaccio, Giovanni"
1939:Works by Giovanni Boccaccio
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1900:The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta
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1970:Encyclopædia Britannica
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2015:De mulieribus claris
1993:De claris mulieribus
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1683:"Library of Liberty"
1522:Boccaccio, Giovanni
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1407:The Concept of Woman
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1095:De mulieribus claris
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697:Troilus and Criseyde
606:), where he studied
604:University of Naples
421:Renaissance humanist
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2470:Letter to Posterity
2001:Library of Congress
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586:Compagnia dei Bardi
557:Andrea del Castagno
536:Pier Paolo Pasolini
488:Miguel de Cervantes
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208:Italian Renaissance
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2616:Petrarch's library
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1794:978-88-383-6502-7
1615:www.intratext.com
1574:King, Margaret L.
1501:. 1 February 2003
1473:. 1 November 2003
1417:978-0-8028-3346-4
1323:978-1-85124-301-3
1254:, pp. 43–44.
1226:Literature portal
1151:Ninfale fiesolano
1088:978-0-8201-1005-9
1028:Buccolicum carmen
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2557:Guido Sette
1689:17 February
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969:archaeology
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