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Showing posts with label Boccaccio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boccaccio. Show all posts
20 September 2023

Paolo and Francesca

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In the 2nd circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno , Dante and Virgil see two lovers, Paolo and Francesca, condemned for lust (see the illust...
19 September 2023

The Titles of the Decameron

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Giovanni Boccaccio played around with titles, and not only for his own works. Dante Alighieri's magnum opus was called by the author C...
18 September 2023

Boccaccio's Decameron

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Giovanni Boccaccio's best known work to modern readers is his Decameron , a Greek word that means "Ten Days." In it, seven yo...
17 September 2023

Giovanni Boccaccio

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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375) was eight years old when Dante died, but he revered the man and wrote a biography about him. He even gave ...
16 September 2023

Dante's Comedy

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During his lifetime, Dante Alighieri was embroiled in Florentine politics , but along the way he found time—well, he was in exile and had l...
14 April 2016

Saluzzo and England and Griselda

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Saluzzo, a town and principality in northern Italy, had some interesting connections to England. It was a simple tribal city-state in Roman...
17 April 2014

Public Reading

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When April, with her showers sweet, The drought of March has pierced to the roots... A poster for sale of Chaucer reading On this day...
17 January 2014

Scholar of the Supernatural

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[I am on a brief vacation, so here is a post from the past. This post first appeared 23 August 2012.] In Dante's Inferno , the eighth ...
17 April 2013

Chaucer Performs

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Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote  The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote  DailyMedieval doesn't usually talk about...