HONOR 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Leontius Pilatus, Italian Literature, Pope Urban V
25 Feb 2017
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Giovanni boccaccio (born 1313); illegitimate son of an italian merchant: mother is unknown. Stories about her being a french woman (inconsistent) University of naples studying canon law: the neapolitan years were the happiest of his life, naples was the cosmopolitan center, studied dante s friend cino da pistoia, calabrian monk barlaam was responsible for boccaccio s interest in greek letters. Influenced him to learn greek: encountered love. May have been fake like his french mother. Large influence in his works and appears in several. Works: first: allegorical narrative called diana"s hunt. Account of the travails of lovers florio and biancofiore: filostrato. Tells the betrayal of the trojan prince troilus by faithless criseida. May have been created before filocolo: teseida. Boccaccino left naples before the end of 1341, with his son: back to florence, lived in poverty: literary career didn t bring much support. Return to tuscany: after the teseida he turned from chivalrous romance to didactic allegory (like.
