Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, the greatest of Petrarch's disciples, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poems in the vernacular. Boccaccio's characters are notable for their era in that they are realistic, spirited and clever individuals who are grounded in reality (in contradiction to the characters of his contemporaries, who were more concerned with the Medieval virtues of Chivalry, Piety and Humility).

Bibliography

Alphabetical listing of selected works.

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• Amorosa visione (1342)
• Buccolicum carmen (1367-69)
• Caccia di Diana (1334-37)
• Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine (Amato, 1341-42)
• Corbaccio (around 1365, this date is disputed)
• De mulieribus claris (1361, revised up to 1375)
• Decameron (1349-52, revised 1370-71)
• Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta (1343-44)
• Esposizioni sopra la Comedia di Dante (1373-74)
• Filocolo (1336-39)
• Filostrato (1335 or 1340)
• Genealogia deorum gentilium libri (1360, revised up to 1374)
• Ninfale fiesolano (within 1344-46, this date is disputed)
• Rime (finished 1374)
• Teseida delle nozze di Emilia (before 1341)
• Trattatello in laude di Dante (1357, title revised to De origine vita studiis et moribus viri clarissimi Dantis Aligerii florentini poetae illustris et de operibus compositis ab eodem)
• Zibaldone Magliabechiano (within 1351-56)

For an exhaustive listing there is Giovanni Boccaccio: an Annotated Bibliography by J.P. Consoli.

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