Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio, known as Boccaccio (1313-1375), was born in 1313 in Florence or near Certaldo, the natural son of the merchant Boccaccino di Chellino. He followed his father to Naples, where the latter represented the Bardi company, learned trade there and then canon law, and frequented the Angevin court. Back in Florence in 1341, he became friends with Petrarch in 1350. He received minor orders, carried out diplomatic missions for Florence and gave public commentaries on Dante in 1373. Retired to Certaldo, he died there on 21 December 1375.

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