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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...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

[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 ...

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