Boccaccio

[ boh-kah-chee-oh, -choh, buh-; Italian bawk-kaht-chaw ]

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noun

Gio·van·ni [jee-, uh, -, vah, -nee, jaw-, vahn, -nee], 1313–75, Italian writer: author of the Decameron.

Boccaccio

/ bokˈkattʃo /

BoccaccioGiovanni13131375MItalianWRITING: poetWRITING: writer Giovanni (dʒoˈvani). 1313–75, Italian poet and writer, noted particularly for his Decameron (1353), a collection of 100 short stories. His other works include Filostrato (?1338) and Teseida (1341)

But Virgil and Cicero would certainly be on the list; perhaps Livy and Tacitus; Boccaccio and Dante.

In fact, eleven stanzas (183-259) correspond to Boccaccio's Teseide, Canto vii.

See the whole extract from Boccaccio, given and translated in the Introduction; see p. 68, above.

Boccaccio also here speaks of Venus, and refers to the apple which she won from Paris.

Boccaccio here mentions the mother of Parthenopus, whose name Chaucer did not know.

Boccaccio is giving a sort of summary of the result of the war described in the Thebaid.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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