author
Giovanni Boccaccio
1313–1375
A key voice of early Renaissance literature, he is best known for The Decameron, a vivid collection of stories told by young people sheltering from the Black Death. His writing helped raise Italian vernacular prose to new literary importance and still feels sharp, humane, and surprisingly modern.
12 Audiobooks
Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 3
by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron, Volume II
by Giovanni Boccaccio
La Fiammetta
by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron, Volume I
by Giovanni Boccaccio
De Decamerone van Boccaccio
by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels
by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels
by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Novelleja Decameronesta
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 1
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 2
by Giovanni Boccaccio
About the author
Born in 1313 in Tuscany, he became one of the major writers and scholars of fourteenth-century Italy. He was closely associated with Petrarch, admired Dante, and is widely seen as an important early humanist whose work helped shape Renaissance literary culture.
His most famous book, The Decameron, was written in the wake of the plague years and frames one hundred tales within a story about ten young Florentines who flee the Black Death. The book ranges from comic to tragic, earthy to elegant, and it remains his masterpiece as well as one of the great landmarks of European prose.
He also wrote poetry and scholarly works, including On Famous Women and Genealogia deorum gentilium. Across his career, he helped give prestige to writing in Italian rather than only in Latin, and his storytelling would go on to influence later writers across Europe, including Chaucer.