![]() ![]() ![]() Boccaccio promoted the use of the Tuscan vernacular in the written form, rather than the traditional Latin. He is known as one of the “three jewels,” of Italian literature, along with Petrarch and Dante Alighieri, as well as a founder of Renaissance Humanism. Through these connections and experiences in Naples, Boccaccio began to write poetry. In Naples, he also met and fell in love with a woman named Fiammetta, whose presence dominates his work, including The Decameron. His father had connections to the wealthy Bardi family, which resulted in Boccaccio’s introduction to many influential scholars, as well as to Petrarch’s early work. At fifteen, Boccaccio was sent to Naples to study business, finance, and law. Boccaccio spent most of his childhood in Florence, studying with the private tutor Giovanni di Domenico Mazzuoli da Strada, with whom he learned the “seven” liberal arts-grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. Giovanni Boccaccio was born in the year 1313 in Tuscany (either Certaldo or Florence) to an unknown French woman and the wealthy merchant Boccaccino di Chellino. ![]()
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