The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10)

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) was an illustrious Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio was born in Certaldo or in Florence, the precise location remains unclear, to a Florentine merchant and his mistress. His early life was replete with the dynamism of merchant enterprise and the cultivation of an intellect that would mark him as one of ...