How To Use Boccaccio In A Sentence
- Boccaccio's Decameron is a collection of tales collected ca. 1350, introduced by a frame narrative in which the plague of 1348 leads a group of aristocratic ladies and gentlemen to flee the city of Florence for the refuge of country villas, where they tell the stories of which the collection consists. Note: Boccaccio
- More than thirty-two noblemen or squires contributed the stories, with some 14 or 15 taken from Giovanni Boccaccio, and as many more from Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini or other Italian writers, or French fabliaux, but about 70 of them appear to be original. The French Decameron « Jahsonic
- 'It is a surprise to many modern readers,' remarks Virginia Brown, 'to learn that Giovanni Boccaccio's most popular work, the collection of one hundred stories known as the Decameron, is by no means typical of his writings. Boccaccio and the Ladies
- Petrarch, even more truly than with the kindly Boccaccio, that the purely literary life, and that dilettanteism, which is the twin sister of scepticism, began. Among My Books Second Series
- In Boccaccio's Two Venuses (Columbia University Press, 1977) I experimented with an "Augustinian" reading of Boccaccio's minor works. What Did the Decameron Do?
- The grandees took refuge in their country houses—it was such a group whom Boccaccio imagined telling each other the tales in his “Decameron”—or hastened to promise propitiatory legacies to the church.
- The literary standard came into being in the 14th century, largely through Dante's Divine Comedy and the works of Petrarch and Boccaccio .
- In the letter that directly precedes the epistle containing his translation, Petrarch presents a series of arguments contradicting Boccaccio's request that he take literary retirement on account of his old age.
- The name Rea Silvia is ancient, but Rea is only a surname: _rea femmina_ often occurs in Boccaccio, and is used to this day in Tuscany to designate a woman whose reputation is blighted; a priestess Rea is described by Vergil as having been overpowered by Hercules. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
- It is said that Chaucer borrowed the form of his famous tales from a book called The Decameron, written by an Italian poet named Boccaccio. English Literature for Boys and Girls
