be placed may never be exact‚ but all this largely does not matter. Fore‚ the greatest piece and most original part of the tales‚ The General Prologue‚ is what makes Chaucer stand apart from the likes of Italian counterparts in Boccaccio and his Decameron. The General Prologue was shown to me in high school and we did not expand into the tales. Goes to show that The General Prologue is a great literary piece of work and the true star of Chaucer’s creation. Introducing all kinds of personalities from
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Giovanni Boccaccio The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio is best known for the Decameron. For his Latin works and his role in reviving Hellenistic learning in Florence‚ he may be considered one of the early humanists. The culture of Giovanni Boccaccio is rooted in the Middle Ages‚ but his conception of life points forward to the Renaissance. Boccaccio ’s work reflects both his middleclass mercantile background and the chivalric ideals of the Neapolitan court‚ where he spent his youth. He strove
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Boccaccio led the way for Social Realism in literature. Boccaccio wrote the Decameron in 1351and based it upon people living through the plague. Its characters in order to escape the plague hole up in a villa and tell one another stories. These stories are comical and represent the social conditions and issues of the time. There are ten characters and each tells a story; giving ten stories in all. In the preface of the Decameron Boccaccio gives a detailed account of the conditions and horrors of the
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Boccaccio was an Italian author and poet‚ an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women‚ the Decameron and his poems in the vernacular. Boccaccio grew up in Florence‚ but it was in Naples that Boccaccio began what he considered his true vocation‚ poetry. Works produced in this period include Filostrato‚ a later source for Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde‚ Filocolo a prose version of an existing French romance‚ and La caccia di
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writers such as Chaucer‚ Boccaccio‚ Petrarch and artists such as Holbein. The Decameron: This is a collection of novels by the author Giovanni Boccaccio. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 stories told by a group of seven young women and three young men. Boccaccio was known to probably have made the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348‚ and completed it by 1353. The numerous tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit‚ practical jokes‚ and life
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An innocent reading with her brother-in-law quickly turned to a reenactment of the text itself. Boccaccio’s novel‚ The Decameron‚ also adds evidence to the claim that a Galahot serves as a go-between for sinful thoughts. Giovanni even calls the Decameron Prince Galahot in the prologue of the book. The narrator in the introduction to the fourth day gives the reader logic that Boccaccio’s novel was scolded by the public for exposing so
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Misogyny in art dates back further‚ from Marvell‚ to Giovanni Boccaccio in his 14th century book‚ The Decameron. Boccaccio commences his book by generalizing women in the statement: “Whenever‚ fairest ladies‚ I pause to consider how compassionate you all are by nature‚ I invariably become aware that the present work will seem to you to possess an irksome and ponderous opening” (Boccaccio 4). He continues on to warn women to brace themselves‚ for his stories may be perceived as gruesome. In doing
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these ways included new tendencies towards secularism‚ humanism‚ and classicism. Through famous political writings and literature of the time‚ such as Oration on the Dignity of Man by Pico della Mirandola‚ The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli‚ The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio‚ and The Abbot and the Learned Woman by Desiderius Eramus‚ it is clear to see secularism‚ humanism‚ and classicism exemplified. During the times of Medieval Europe the church was a dominating force and all writing as well
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Mediterranean‚ Volume 83: Communities in Crisis: Bologna‚ During the Black Death‚ Bill Academic Publishers‚ And Boston‚ MA‚ USA. This citation deals with the stress and actions the people took to stay alive. Riva‚ M.‚ Papio‚ M.‚ Roz‚ G.‚ (2010)‚ The Decameron Web: Plague‚ www.brown.edu/departments/Itlian_studies/dweb/the_project. This web site has much useful information about the Black Death and the impact that it had on societies in this period. How many people were taken by the Black Death‚ and numerous
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historian can make the argument that Europeans believed that the Black Death was the wrath of God and punishment for their sins‚ based on the sources provided. Such evidence includes how Boccaccio recorded in The Decameron ‚ “Men and women‚ convinced of this and caring about nothing
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