Lieta brigata boccaccio biography
Boccaccio wrote a biography of him.
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) is best known as the author of the Decameron, for which he created a lieta brigata of young men and women narrating a series of popular stories in Italian.
Yet during his lifetime and long afterward Boccaccio was celebrated as a leading figure in the revival of classical Latin in such literary and historical works as his Eclogues, The Genealogy of the Gods, and On Famous Women.
Lieta brigata boccaccio biography
In The Downfall of the Famous (De casibus virorum illustrium) Boccaccio also composed a work that followed classical models and provided civic and ethical guides for his readers. In this he joined the efforts of his role model, Francesco Petrarch, whose own Latin De viris illustribus and unfinished Africa set the standard for early modern humanists.
Boccaccio beganThe Downfall of the Famous circa 1355 and completed his authoritative version in 1374.
In all he presented over ninety biographies of famous men and women in nine books. These ranged from Adam and Ev