[DOC] [TLE] Giovanni Boccaccio - Wikipedia [PAR] Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an 
important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, 
including The Decameron and On Famous Women. He wrote his imaginative 
literature mostly in the Italian vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and ... 
Boccaccio may have been tutored by Giovanni Mazzuoli and received from... [DOC] [TLE] Dante Alighieri - Wikipedia [PAR] Durante degli Alighieri simply called Dante was a major Italian poet of the Late 
Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comeda (modern Italian: 
Commedia) and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the 
greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of 
world literature. ... To take any part in public life, one had to enroll in one of the 
city's many... [DOC] [TLE] Italian literature - Wikipedia [PAR] Italian literature is written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may 
also refer to literature written by Italians or in Italy in other languages ... Dante, 
one of the greatest of Italian poets, is notable for his Divina Commedia. ...... 
deprecate the accuracy of) and gave public critical lectures on the poem in Santa 
Maria del... [DOC] [TLE] BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI To BRUNELLESCHI, FILIPPO ... [PAR] One of the three great Italian authors of the 14th century (along with Dante ... 
Boccaccio composed three works reflecting his own classical studies: ... late in 
life delivered a series of public lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy. ... Italian 
humanist and poet, best known for his romance epic Orlando innamorato /Roland 
in Love. [DOC] [TLE] Giovanni Boccaccio facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is best known for the 
Decameron. ... I would have become one of the celebrated poets; but because he 
strove to ... of Neapolitan society and two stories which later reappear in the 
Decameron. ... Little is known of this period of Boccaccio's life, but his works 
written between... [DOC] [TLE] Dante - Assessment and influence | Italian poet | Britannica.com [PAR] Oct 12, 2015 ... Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and ... life of the poet 
and then in 137374 delivered the first public lectures on The ... Later readers 
have been eager to show the poem to be a ... as a mighty work of architecture, 
whose different sections reflect and, .... Early life and the Vita nuova [DOC] [TLE] Giovanni Boccaccio - Medieval Studies - Oxford Bibliographies [PAR] Among Boccaccio's other prose works in Italian are L'elegia di madonna ... sopra 
la Comedia), which resulted from his public lectures on Dante in Florence. ... 
regard to the different major themes that emerge in his early and late literary 
works. ... of Boccaccio's life and works, with representative selections from his 
poetic and... [DOC] [TLE] The End of Europe's Middle Ages - Language & Literature [PAR] On the other hand, the common, or Vulgar, Latin was a living language, mingling 
with ... according to systems no longer in use, basing his rules on the works of 
ancient authors. ... The Rise of Vernacular Language in the Late Middle Ages .... 
followed by two other Italian poets, Giovanni Boccaccio and Francesco Petrarch. [DOC] [TLE] Giovanni Boccaccio - CatholiCity.com [PAR] But he gave himself up almost entirely to literature, and became intimately ... She 
was the inspiration of his earlier works, and the heroine of whom he tells under 
the ... among other love-adventures, the sad story of the life of Boccaccio's mother
. ... public lectures on Dante, was planned to be a colossal work, but Boccaccio... [DOC] [TLE] Giovanni Boccaccio - Certaldo [PAR] Boccaccio has long been thought to have been born in Certaldo, his father's 
home town, ... poesis", which, on his tombstone, he identifies as the task and 
study of his life. ... of the French language acquired there, were of considerable 
influence on his later career. ..... This work marks in a certain sense the rise of 
Italian prose.

Question: Late in life, Boccaccio gave public lectures on this other Italian poet's works
Answer: Dante