| 单词 | Boccaccio |
| 例句 | The last picture where they shared the directing credit was in 2015 with “Wondrous Boccaccio”, which was based on stories from The Decameron by the renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio. Feted Italian film director Vittorio Taviani dies 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z He was well aware of Italian writers who were also opening a vernacular reality in literature: he probably met Boccaccio. Why did Chaucer not make it into Treasures of Heaven? 2011-08-05T13:31:37Z Against this backdrop Boccaccio gathers 10 young Florentines – seven women and three men – who retire to the countryside until the plague passes. A brief survey of the short story part 31: Boccaccio 2011-02-09T12:31:30Z Scenes from Boccaccio and Dante gave way to static, monumental figures whose threat, or promise, only hint at what comes next. Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Our knowledge of changes made to the quartos, as well as Florio's treatment of Boccaccio and Montaigne, suggests that there is a strong chance that they were. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z The malaise hovered in the air, like the Black Death in Boccaccio’s “The Decameron.” Review: Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’: A Euro Buddy Film 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Or maybe just a talented filmmaker who needs to get over trying to be Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick and Boccaccio in every second of every movie. “The Revenant”: Leo’s amazing — but is this revenge western more than a live-action Roadrunner cartoon? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Boccaccio might have had medieval audiences rolling in the aisles, but Mr. Baena squanders an R rating and a roster of household names while managing to raise little more than a smile. Review: In ‘The Little Hours,’ These Sisters Are Neither Chaste Nor Obedient 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Boccaccio’s nuns are carnally insatiable; Isabella’s virtue is up for grabs in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”; temptation and obsession drive Rumer Godden’s “Black Narcissus.” The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Plagues have been a plot staple throughout literary history, from the “Iliad” and the Bible to classics like Boccaccio’s “Decameron” and Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year.” The Problem With the Pandemic Plot 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z In the introduction to Day Four, Boccaccio launches a passionate defence of the Decameron, pre-empting his critics by rehearsing their arguments and demolishing them in turn. A brief survey of the short story part 31: Boccaccio 2011-02-09T12:31:30Z Or never mind the brain, feel the biceps – as Boccaccio nearly but didn't quite say in the opera's closing lines. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z The project’s title alludes to Boccaccio’s “The Decameron,” that 14th-century collection of stories and its frame of people entertaining one another in quarantine from the plague. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z In Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14 century work “The Decameron,” 10 people who have fled Florence during the Black Death spin stories to repel the darkness of despair. Has he lived 1,110 years, or only 106? A desert retiree's magical metafictional tour 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The fellows here, however, would be considered by Boccaccio’s audience as “non-professional” opportunists. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z “Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope” bites off a lot, no question, with subjects as varied as Boccaccio, Frederick Douglass and Bertrand Russell. The First Book of Spring 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Its terrors were chronicled by Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian writer and poet who lived through the plague when it struck Florence. Where Did the Black Death Begin? DNA Detectives Find a Key Clue. 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Like Boccaccio's characters mine, too, fall back on one of the oldest resources we have, one of the few destined to survive as long as we do: storytelling. Facts haven’t spurred us to climate action. Can fiction? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z During the trial it emerged Hughes met him at an Amsterdam hotel, then the Boccaccio sex club and alerted others to where he was. Martin Kok: Gangland figure guilty of murdering Dutch crime writer 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z The standard medical textbook in Boccaccio’s time was Galen’s. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Boccaccio presents his characters in all their individuality and all their folly. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Although separated in time by centuries, they had something in common: Boccaccio was, as Dr. Hollander noted, the “first practitioner” in the study of Dante. Robert Hollander, towering scholar of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ dies at 87 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z This January, I entered the Cli Fi genre myself, with the publication of my novel "Though The Earth Gives Way," a retelling of one of the oldest novels, Boccaccio's "The Decameron." Facts haven’t spurred us to climate action. Can fiction? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z In Boccaccio’s Decameron, a group of travellers take refuge from the Black Death in a villa outside Florence and share their stories. Margaret Atwood to edit collaborative modern Decameron for the Covid era 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z “Many departed this life,” Boccaccio wrote, “without anyone at all as a witness.” Medieval Europeans didn’t understand how the plague spread. Their response wasn’t so different from ours now. 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian writer of the time, described its effect: World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Among Boccaccio’s appreciators is the novelist Rivka Galchen, who unwittingly sparked the idea for the issue when she pitched an essay on reading “The Decameron” for the magazine’s Letter of Recommendation column. An All-Fiction Magazine Issue, Inspired by 14th-Century Stories 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z In Boccaccio's book, noblemen and noblewomen who fled Florence during the Black Death hole up in a villa outside the city and pass the time by telling stories. Facts haven’t spurred us to climate action. Can fiction? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z In the face of the Black Death, the pandemic that ravaged 14th-century Europe, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote at the time, “all the wisdom and ingenuity of man were unavailing.” Synetic Theater adapts tales written in the face of a 14th-century plague for our modern times 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Boccaccio’s 14th-century characters passed their time in self-imposed exile by telling stories about kings, priests and sex. Medieval Europeans didn’t understand how the plague spread. Their response wasn’t so different from ours now. 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z In Florence, wrote Giovanni Boccaccio, “No more respect was accorded to dead people than would nowadays be accorded to dead goats.” How Pandemics End 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year. The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z On the shelf in my study now is a recently purchased copy of “The Decameron,” Boccaccio’s interwoven stories of medieval Florence during the Black Death. Why Cocktail Hour Is Back 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z While sheltering in Alexandria with five of her children, who sometimes helped film, Velasco riffed on Boccaccio’s yarn about a friar who bamboozles people with fake relics. Synetic Theater adapts tales written in the face of a 14th-century plague for our modern times 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Still others were cavalier about the disease and went about their lives socializing, drinking heavily, “satisfying their appetites by any means available,” Boccaccio wrote. Medieval Europeans didn’t understand how the plague spread. Their response wasn’t so different from ours now. 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z "The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio, one of the most famous literary works of the Renaissance, is about people telling stories to pass the time as they shelter in place to avoid the bubonic plague. At first, Tucker Carlson took the coronavirus seriously — but now he's gone total bats**t 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Seven hundred years on, there’s something deeply poignant about Boccaccio’s pre-scientific description of the spread of the Black Death in his native Florence. The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z In January, Hunter launched Bookshop.org, which offers everything from the new Hilary Mantel novel to such classics as Boccaccio’s “The Decameron,” and shares proceeds with independent stores. New online store offers help to shuttered indie booksellers 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Newton discovered gravity; Shakespeare dreamed up “Macbeth” and Boccaccio conceived “The Decameron;” all while sheltering in place from plagues in their day. Opinion | Where there is humor, there is hope 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Some in Florence shut themselves inside their homes and lived in isolation, according to a detailed account from 14th-century writer and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. Medieval Europeans didn’t understand how the plague spread. Their response wasn’t so different from ours now. 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z They learn about plague and contagion at school because two of the classics of Italy’s literary canon – Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed and Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, deal with precisely those themes. Orderly, dour, cowed: how my beloved Italy is changed by coronavirus 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z In the shadow of Dante and Boccaccio, Italian literature has no domineering elder of the very long novel: no Cervantes, no Richardson or Fielding, no Dumas or Hugo. Sex and Power in “The Catholic School” 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z He does not imitate Boccaccio any more than Henri Leys imitated the primitives. Van Gogh's gushing letter to art critic goes on show in Amsterdam 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z One about “The Decameron,” by Boccaccio, which I was required to read in college and hadn’t thought of since. Letter of Recommendation: Learned League 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Boccaccio’s masterpiece, “The Decameron,” was written several years after the disease had swept through Florence and describes a fictional getaway: 10 young characters leaving the plague-hit city and heading into the hills. Medieval Europeans didn’t understand how the plague spread. Their response wasn’t so different from ours now. 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z With “The Little Hours,” Baena takes his inspiration from no less rarefied a text than “The Decameron,” Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s sprawling set of 14thcentury novellas. Review | ‘The Little Hours’: Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron,’ by way of f-bombs and modern lingo 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Boccaccio might have had medieval audiences rolling in the aisles, but Baena squanders an R rating and a roster of household names while managing to raise little more than a smile. ‘The Little Hours’ review: Naughty farce mostly wastes good cast 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Based on tales from Giovanni Boccaccio’s medieval book “The Decameron,” the film turns out to be much more, an odd, funny, unexpectedly vibrant portrait of people just trying to make things work out. Indie Focus: Savvy summer fun with 'Okja,' 'Baby Driver' and 'The Little Hours' 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z I work as a poet and translator and would find it inconceivable to read Chaucer without being aware of the figures of Dante and Boccaccio in the background, or Shakespeare without Plutarch. Translation – and migration – is the lifeblood of culture | George Szirtes 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z People were doing much the same thing as Boccaccio’s characters. Medieval Europeans didn’t understand how the plague spread. Their response wasn’t so different from ours now. 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z As the 14th-century poet Giovanni Boccaccio wrote: “Right so can women suffer patiently,/ And all wrongs womanly endure.” What’s Really Behind Trump’s Obsession With Clinton’s ‘Stamina’? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Florence was at the center of Renaissance culture — think Dante, Boccaccio, Leonardo da Vinci — and was funded by the city’s status as Europe’s financial center. Ted Cruz’s top foreign policy adviser has written a book. It’s about art history. 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z A blithe generalization, ignoring the vibrantly secular sensibilities of the troubadours, Marie de France, Geoffrey Chaucer, Giovanni Boccaccio and many other writers of the Middle Ages. Spiritual leader of a medieval city in crisis 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z She and Fellini would work together again in 1962, on the comedy Boccaccio ’70. Anita Ekberg, International Film Siren, Dies at Age 83 Also called digits, mutton fists, and indicationum, they featured in the works of Petrarch and Boccaccio. Oxford’s Marginalia Obsession | The New Yorker 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z "I am sure that Wayne took a look at our version, especially since we tried to take a nonarchaic, non-British approach to Boccaccio's great and very clear vernacular Italian." Lots in Translation: How Many Times Can a Tale Be Told? 2013-09-09T03:15:18Z She said only a few copies of the de Premierfait translation, the first of two he made of the Boccaccio text, survived worldwide. Academic finds 'dream' medieval work 2013-07-11T01:52:34Z The right of this fantastical fresco portrays a group of men and women, who, with dogs and falcons, appear to be back from the chase, or they may be sitting as in Boccaccio's garden. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z But the story is older than Boccaccio, who constantly uses old tales. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z It was because of Milton and Shakespeare writing, not because of Dante and Boccaccio who had written, that these immortal works are treasures of the English tongue. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z Mr. Rebhorn says Boccaccio actually wrote the man was "naked from the waist up." Lots in Translation: How Many Times Can a Tale Be Told? 2013-09-09T03:15:18Z Giovanni Boccaccio wrote the original of the discovered work in around 1360 A rare manuscript by one of the medieval period's greatest thinkers has been found in a university library in Manchester. Academic finds 'dream' medieval work 2013-07-11T01:52:34Z The love affair with Beatrice, whose story Boccaccio relates with so much zest, is the one sharply-defined feature of Dante's youth and early manhood. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z La Fontaine founded his fable of Le Psautier on Boccaccio’s version. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z A mile to the left, on the same ridge, an old villa is to be seen in which Boccaccio wrote most of his "Hundred Tales of Love." Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z No one who has turned over the works of Boccaccio is unacquainted with the name of Fiammetta. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Rhetorician, philosopher and man of science, a story-teller wavering between Boccaccio and Hans Andersen, he is above all a stylist, a pietist and a humorist. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z In 1350 Petrarch became acquainted with Boccaccio and thenceforth there existed the warmest friendship between these two great exponents of Renaissance ideals and achievement. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z Another very ribald Italian folk-song of the fourteenth or fifteenth century is specially interesting because it is founded upon Boccaccio’s famous tale of the Abbess and the breeches. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Mr. Frozi has his own spot, Boccaccio, an upscale Italian eatery popular with well-heeled Afghans and foreigners, including American and European diplomats. Corruption Remains Intractable in Afghanistan Under Karzai Government 2012-03-08T03:02:04Z Why, what a shiver it gives one to realise that not Boccaccio himself can convey to us any real picture of his love! Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z It is believed that Boccaccio obtained this tale from some tradition of ancient Greece, where Basil is a symbol of hatred and despair. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z His narrative verse founded on the tales of Boccaccio appeared in 1821 as The Garden of Florence and other Poems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Very little inferior to Boccaccio and far superior to the Heptameron, the stories possess a brightness and gaiety entirely their own; moreover they are of high literary merit. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z However he said coldly, "Likely what thou hast done might pass in a novel of thy countryman, Signor Boccaccio; but 'twas not honest." The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z She, too, it was whose amorous musings Boccaccio published in a book which bore her name. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z It is but the framework upon which luxuriate vines of fancy transplanted from many another garden, and even in its place resembling, if not borrowed from, Boccaccio. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Boccaccio tells us that he became very familiar with Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Statius, and all other famous poets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z He had read of the lost Boccaccio in the Herald, but did not understand why any "self-respecting thief would stoop to steal a worthless old book!" The Unpublishable Memoirs 2012-02-03T03:00:18.447Z The true revivers of ancient learning and philosophy, were two writers of fiction—Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z It is with Boccaccio that her memory is linked for evermore. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z The description is of the temple of Venus in Boccaccio’s “La Teseide.” Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z A majority of Elizabethan plays are romantic rather than classical or realistic, though the romance is of many kinds and drawn from many widely different sources, as Boccaccio, D'Urfé, or Lope de Vega. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Giovanni Boccaccio had added another story to the Hundred that composed his immortal collection. The Unpublishable Memoirs 2012-02-03T03:00:18.447Z He is made the subject of tales and anecdotes by Boccaccio and by Franco Sacchetti. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z But Boccaccio's story has the marks of truth. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z And you can make neat remarks about the resemblances and differences between O. Henry, Boccaccio, and H. C. Bunner. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z The play is based on Painter's version of Boccaccio's novella, which is followed closely, but the base-born lover becomes a count according to the prevailing theory of tragedy. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The newspapers were full of the curious recovery of the Boccaccio, were quite facetious about it and went so far as to call the great building on Fifth Avenue a Literary Mausoleum. The Unpublishable Memoirs 2012-02-03T03:00:18.447Z Hugo Grotius and Puffendorf, whose far-famed worldly wisdom entitles their views to great respect, Machiavelli and Boccaccio, Thomasius and even Kant, all have repeatedly admitted the existence of what we familiarly call ghosts. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z I wonder why Boccaccio chose to put an impossible circumstance into this story. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z After all, Boccaccio and whoever made "The Arabian Nights" lived long before Poe and in Poe's stories are evident traces of old tales of magic and mystery. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z "Your story is exactly after the style of Boccaccio!" laughed Montricourt.—"If this goes on, messieurs, we shall be able to publish a sequel to the Decameron." Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z Everywhere we find the plots of Terence or of Plautus interwoven with a Novella in the style of Boccaccio. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z As Boccaccio said of Dante, not learning but good wits are needed to appreciate him. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Probably he is only an illustrator of books by the way, but in the meantime, as the 'Boccaccio,' 'Browning,' and 'Shakespeare' drawings show, he works in black and white with vigorous intention. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z I have written those of Petrarch, Boccaccio, etc., and am now engaged on Macchiavelli; this takes up my time, and is a source of interest and pleasure. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Perhaps Boccaccio's story of the falcon is too familiar to quote, though it illustrates domestic love too well to be unmentioned. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z In time of peril humanity always reveals these extravagant contrasts, and Boccaccio, with the true instinct of the artist, set his tales of merriment and licentiousness against the background of a city perishing of plague. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z And there was the speed with which it killed — Boccaccio reported that death often occurred within three days of the first symptoms appearing. Plague genome: The Black Death decoded 2011-10-26T17:20:52.043Z The great Guilds were henceforth a power in the State, and the Secondo Popolo had arisen–the democracy that Dante and Boccaccio were to know. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z Boccaccio's "Decameron" is a series of splendidly told tales, from which Chaucer drew much besides his inspiration. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Composed as it is on the model of Boccaccio, its tone and character are entirely different, and few works have a more individual charm. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Shortly before I had visited the garden near Florence which Boccaccio's immortal tales have kept in perennial beauty through five centuries. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z In France, in Spain, in Germany—mother of myths—in Italy, where they drop red from the wine-press of Boccaccio—are these stories to be heard. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z This may be taken as the close of the first or "heroic" epoch of Florentine Art, which runs simultaneously with the great democratic period of Florentine history, represented in literature by Dante and Boccaccio. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z From them Virgil, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Rabelais, Molière, Shakspeare, Calderon, and a host of others have drawn their inspiration. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Now it was principally through Boccaccio’s example that Chaucer learned how to break away from the French school. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z They could not, however, like Boccaccio's ladies and gentlemen "kill Death" by their witty tales; for presently beloved faces disappeared from their circle, and the cruel axe was gleaming over them. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z "But Master Boccaccio's mistake was that he did not live in these days; he would have found ample matter to enlarge his volumes." The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Although undoubtedly in Boccaccio's handwriting, it has been much disputed of late years as to whether these two letters are really by Dante. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z Probably he met Petrarch and Boccaccio, and certainly he drew largely from their works as well as from Dante's, and he dug into poor Gower as into a stone quarry. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z The Teseide kept him from sleeping, and his later progress cannot be understood apart from this epic of Boccaccio. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The thoughts of Boccaccio, Rabelais, Shakespeare,—whose works are commonly expurgated,—are so modern that they are not generally granted the allowances conceded to writers whose ideas are as antiquated as their words. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z After the first shock was over, the multitude relapsed into a licence proportionate to their first terror—a reaction described most vividly by Boccaccio, but with equal emphasis by other chroniclers. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z But the audience were not equally pleased, and Boccaccio had to defend himself in verse. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z Boccaccio wrote it in prose; Dryden re-wrote it in verse; Botticelli illustrated it; and Byron summed up its quality in one of his most sympathetic passages. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z It is uncertain whether Chaucer knew the Decameron of Boccaccio, but the art of his comic stories is very like that of the Italian, to whom he owed so much in other ways. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Applications for the right of performing Boccaccio's Untold Tale must be made to Mr. Harry Kemp, in care of Brentano's, New York. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Almost equally improbable is the suggestion that, without any grudge against Boccaccio, Chaucer simply found it convenient to hide the amount of his indebtedness to him. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z It has been described, in all its horrors, in one of the most famous passages of modern prose–that appalling introduction to Boccaccio's Decameron. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z Without any qualms He knocks down the Psalms, Or the chaste Imitatio, And takes the same pains To enhance his gains With a ribald Boccaccio. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z Some of his greatest imaginative work, and the most original, is done in his adaptation of the story of Troilus from an Italian poem of Boccaccio. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Tell them that Seignior Boccaccio Sends word through me that we must wait no longer. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z And if Douglas thus outranges even Dante, he leaves Chaucer and Boccaccio far behind. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Boccaccio, born at Certaldo in 1313, the year of the Emperor Henry's death, was growing up in Florence, a sharp and precocious boy. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z With the Olympia of Boccaccio in an Appendix. The Book of the Duke of True Lovers 2011-07-18T02:00:24.030Z In Anelida Italian and French are separate and discordant; in the Parliament of Birds there is a harmony, but as yet Chaucer has not matched himself thoroughly against Boccaccio. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z It is like a tale by Boccaccio, but by a Boccaccio who is ingenuous and pure. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z In matter, Chaucer is far more akin to Petrarch and Boccaccio, from whom he also borrowed even more freely. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z From Boccaccio he borrowed freely, with a royal bettering in the borrowing. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z Boccaccio tells this story with that admirable combination of straightforward conciseness and finished grace which characterizes his mature prose. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The Teseide of Boccaccio is at last after many attempts—how many, it is impossible to say—rendered into English by Chaucer, not in a translation, but with a thorough recasting of the whole story. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The lonely Petrarch listened, as she sang, so sweet and low, A soft love-laden sonnet, writ by Boccaccio. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z Similarly, the poets of the 14th century were very frequently sent abroad as ambassadors; Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio had already set Chaucer this example, which his friend Eustache Deschamps was soon to follow. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z It is a modification of a form used by Boccaccio, and was itself possibly used by Spenser as the basis of his peculiar stanza. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z Can it be that Hunt had told Keats the story, or at least those parts of it which would serve him, in the course of talk about Boccaccio? Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z From the days of Boccaccio, the Italians have usually paid their tribute to “illustrious women,” notwithstanding the free insinuations 266 of some malicious novelists; that people preceded in the refinement of social life the tramontani. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It is mentioned and censured by Roger Bacon, but the Poetics in any form was probably unknown to Dante, to Boccaccio, and beyond a single obscure reference, to Petrarch. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Did Chaucer make the personal acquaintance, on this first Italian journey, of Petrarch and Boccaccio, who were beyond dispute the two greatest living men of letters in Europe besides himself? Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Boccaccio’s heroine at once makes up her mind to flee from the Greek camp, and then is quickly turned from her “high and great intent” by the advent of a new lover. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z These we must accordingly suppose to be Boccaccio’s own invention and to have been known to Keats, directly or indirectly, from the Filocolo itself. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The English poet might have lost his raciness by a cold imitation of the Latin masters; among the Italians, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, Chaucer found only models to emulate or to surpass. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z In this point he finds fault with Boccaccio, Boiardo, and Ariosto, whose romantic poems, moreover, he does not regard as epics, because they do not obey Aristotle's inviolable -110-law of the single action. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The English ballad-singers may have been as much on the look-out for a new, orally communicated song from foreign parts, as Chaucer was for a poem of Petrarch's or a tale of Boccaccio's. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z When Chaucer went to Italy, Dante had already been dead for over fifty years, but Petrarch and Boccaccio, the other members of that great trilogy of the earlier Renaissance, were both alive. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z All these circumstances, it has been shown, except the immediate flight of the lovers, are closely paralleled in Boccaccio’s early novel Il Filocolo, and look as though they must have been derived from it. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The third great master of the vernacular literature of Italy was Boccaccio, who threw out the fertility of his genius in the volgare of nature herself. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z His attitude is not that of a humanist, for Cicero and Boccaccio do not receive more respectful treatment at his hands than Aristotle does. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z She also studied for a time with Signor Randeggor, in London, and in 1886 made her first appearance on any stage at the London Comedy in "Boccaccio." Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Mr. Coulton suggests that Boccaccio’s works may have been published anonymously and that Chaucer may have been ignorant of their real author, and this could hardly have been the case if the two had met. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z One of these invocations—invocation and apology together—is to Boccaccio himself, disowning all idea of improving the tale and defining the poet’s attempt as made but to honour him,— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He has curiously exhibited to us all the trumpery regalia of papistry; as he also exposed “The Friery” in another interlude which has all the appearance of a merry tale from Boccaccio. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z I think the Mermaid might be both interesting and effective well carried out, and you might also perhaps paint some subject from some one of the Italian poets—Tasso, Ariosto, Boccaccio—for your own satisfaction. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z Shakespeare drew the plots of his plays from Boccaccio or Straparola; but these Italians did not invent the tales they lent to the English dramatist. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z At the Court of Queen Joan of Naples he would have been a rival to Boccaccio, himself an adventurer. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Italy! the classic land of our school-boy exercises! the land of bright skies and soft summer scenes! the land of Tasso, of Ariosto, Byron, Boccaccio, and the brigands! The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z He invokes the interposition of the civil magistrate against Petrarch and Boccaccio, whose volumes were then selling in every shop. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Boccaccio draws a lively picture of an angel in the flesh, as he imagined her; and in his portrait there is far less of the angelic than the carnal nature visible. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z About the same period, Boccaccio also collected several Latin MSS., and copied such as he could not purchase. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Hunt wrote: “Petrarch, Boccaccio and Dante are the morning, noon and night of the great Italian day.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z He subscribes to the excellent society which prosecutes booksellers for selling the Decameron of Boccaccio. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z It fell into the hands of Octave Uzanne, who instantly ordered Rabelais and Boccaccio to "shove over" on the immortal seats and make room by their side for the author. Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin 2011-03-09T03:00:47.587Z Boccaccio did not act consciously and with fixed-100- purpose to these ends. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The Italian presses were busy with Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Dante. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z In it he had discovered a resemblance to Chaucer, to the voluptuous pathos of Boccaccio and to the laughing graces of Ariosto. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The Fables, or Metrical Tales, redacted in his old age from Chaucer and Boccaccio, occupy a volume and a half. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z This is what he himself says, after Beatrice, as Boccaccio relates, “very winning, very graceful, in aspect very beautiful,” had turned her gaze on Dante from time to time at their first meeting. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z In Boccaccio, the guiding genius of the Italian Renaissance arrives at consciousness. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio, who knew Dante personally, tells us, that on the death of Beatrice, he was so changed by affliction that his best friends could scarcely recognise him. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z Petrarch's sonnets and Boccaccio's stories firmly established the primacy to which Dante had raised the Tuscan idiom. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z The new prose—which Chaucer knew in several of the writings of Boccaccio—was vastly different from any that he had ever read in a modern tongue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Boccaccio says that Dante was a man of strong passions, and possibly, indeed probably, he was. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z The god Boccaccio worshiped was changed: but this deity was still divine, and deserved, he thought, the honors of mystic adoration. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.—A translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Life of Dante with an introduction and a note on the portraits of Dante by G. R. Carpenter. A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe 2011-02-16T03:00:36.047Z Between March and July, Boccaccio says, more than 100,000 people died within the walls of Florence. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z With all its complexity and subdivisions, it has as real a unity as the age of Pericles, or that of Petrarch and Boccaccio, or the period in Germany that includes both Lessing and Heine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Apuleius is better remembered by his fable of Cupid and Psyche than by his abstruser Platonic writings; and the Decameron of Boccaccio has outlived the Latin Treatises, and other learned works of that author.” The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z These were known to Boccaccio, for he refers to them by name at the close of the fifth day in the Decameron. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Other great books could be added to this list, such as Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography, Boccaccio's Tales, the Analects of Confucius and Mahomet's Koran. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z One wonders if this clause includes Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, or whether the humanists did not regard them as necessary or appropriate to culture. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Doni has said of him, "Hail then to the name of Salernitano, who, scorning to borrow even a single word from Boccaccio, has produced a work which he may justly regard as his own." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z From the ceiling fell a rosy radiance, soft, tender, and faint, vaguely illumining the tapestries with which the walls were draped, upon which were represented rare subjects derived from Boccaccio. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z He is a thirteenth-century Boccaccio, without Boccaccio's enthusiasm for humane studies. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z There’s much to be commended in this welcome new look at Shakespeare’s poetically dense and dramatically rather formulaic play, which is a near-literal reworking of a story from Boccaccio’s “Decameron.” | New Jersey: Chicanery Abounds in a New ?All?s Well? 2010-09-25T00:31:00Z Petrarch and Boccaccio, both Florentines, also deserve their share of praise. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z His usual prose has the easy elastic abundance of Boccaccio and a lawyer's love of proving a point exhaustively in controversy. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z They have been compared with the old French fabliaux and the tales of Boccaccio. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" It reverted to the models furnished by Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, and combined them with the classics, which had for so long a while eclipsed their fame. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Compare also Boccaccio's explanation of his mother's dream of the peacock. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. It was this plague which Boccaccio describes in the beginning of the "Decameron." A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z You will read Boccaccio, whose tales are intaglios carved with exquisitely licentious and Lilliputian scenes. Sinister Street, vol. 1 "In that case," said Marguerite, with one of the smiles which belong only to the women of Boccaccio, "since this is your wish, I will do my best to second it." Marguerite de Valois But this curiosity of the volgo, as Boccaccio contemptuously called them, was satisfied by the production of a vernacular literature, which brought the ruder-240- elements of knowledge within their reach. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is true that Dante’s Vita Nuova was written before, but its involved sentences, founded essentially on Latin constructions, cannot be compared with the infinite suppleness and precision of Boccaccio’s prose. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The first to lead the way in restoring Grecian learning in Europe were the same men who had revived the kindred muses of Latium, Petrarch and Boccaccio. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 His first dated book was a Boccaccio of 1476, and he continued to print until 1484, when he issued a fine edition, in French, of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The Story of Books This is high praise for the product of a literature that boasts of Boccaccio's 'Decameron,' and gave birth to the novelle, the parent of modern fiction. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Of Griselda we have Boccaccio's Italian, and Petrarch's Latin prose, in addition to the anonymous ottava rima version. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is also mentioned that the revelation to the friar on his deathbed of a secret known only to Boccaccio gave additional import to this alarming information. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" It was the home of the family of Giovanni Boccaccio, who died and was buried here in 1375. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Lessing had acted wisely, substituting for the name of Melchisedek--Boccaccio's Jew--that of Nathan, for the very name reminds one of an all-embracing garment. On the Heights A Novel I hooked Roderick Random and Boccaccio when I was twelve—but you needn't worry. Shadows of Flames A Novel At the same time he was sufficiently a poet to delight a generation that had seen no great writer of verse since Boccaccio. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z In his last will Boccaccio left his library to his father confessor, and after his decease to the convent of Santo Spirito in Florence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" What good could the study of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio do us now? The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second This book was a French translation of Boccaccio’s collection of stories called “Noble Women.” The Women of Tomorrow The classical inventions throughout appear to be very much from Boccaccio; but the poetry of the relation Chaucer's own. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 Not only has the gravity of Dante's passion passed away from Florence, but Boccaccio's sensuous ideality is gone, and the naïveté of popular erotic poetry is clouded with gross innuendoes. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Being young and beautiful, fond of poetry and of the praise of poets, she received Boccaccio with all the distinction due to his literary fame. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" A short essay of his on Boccaccio may be specified as one of the best of French contemporary critical exercises. A Short History of French Literature There was a rumor that it was once Boccaccio's villa. One Of Them A host of allegorical persons are in attendance of course; and there, too, stands a Temple of Venus, described from the Teseida of Boccaccio. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 Not less familiar with Tuscan poetry of the fourteenth century, he commanded the stores of Dante's, Petrarch's and Boccaccio's diction. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z In 1350 Boccaccio returned to Florence, owing to the death of his father, who had made him guardian to his younger brother Jacopo. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The idea and plan of the work are avowedly borrowed from Boccaccio, but the thing is worked out with so much originality that it becomes nothing so little as an imitation. A Short History of French Literature The revelations of monkish life by Boccaccio, Cintio, Arlotto, and a hundred other good Catholics, were a thousand times more damaging than the Epistolæ, because they were the unconscious betrayals of friends. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series His next work was to render some of Chaucer’s and Boccaccio’s tales and Ovid’s Metamorphoses into his own verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Boccaccio bound up in one volume a hundred tales, delineating society in all its aspects. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The only important result of Boccaccio’s diplomatic career was his intimacy with Petrarch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Again, a poem by Hans Rosenpliit is given entirely in the manner of Boccaccio. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Boccaccio's merry raconteurs Italian wedding costumes and customs, fifteenth century. Women of the Romance Countries (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 6 (of 10) Some of the Tales are obviously modelled on those of Chaucer and Boccaccio, but in most of his, he insinuates a political or social moral, while they narrate the story for the story's sake. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series She is surrounded with no flames of sensual desire like the Griselda of Boccaccio. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Yielding at last to his son’s immutable aversion to commerce, the elder Boccaccio permitted him to adopt a course of study somewhat more congenial to the literary tastes of the young man. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" In later years he repented of this shameless work, just as Boccaccio is said in the day of his grey hairs to have thought of the sprightliness of the Decameron with strong remorse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" We know well, O gentle public, that poor ignorant creatures like ourselves are but too rash to appear before you great Florentines, citizens of Michel Angelo, dwellers with Benvenuto, companions of Boccaccio!' Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier Boccaccio’s work was at once that and something else. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern But it is more sentimental and imaginative, because its author had not Boccaccio's crude experience. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Jealous fears add to her torture, not altogether unfounded, if we believe the commentators’ assertion that the heroine of Ameto is in reality the beautiful Lucia, a Florentine lady loved by Boccaccio. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Boccaccio, by making Theodelinda the subject of one of his amorous tales, has taken an unwarranted and reprehensible liberty with a good queen of whom her age was justly proud. Women of Early Christianity Then a merry whistle, a few bars from "Boccaccio" and hasty steps in the corridor. Gertrude's Marriage There surviving troubadours escaped and left a legacy which Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio diversely shared. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern It also proves that the language of Boccaccio was for them almost a foreign speech. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z With a boldness pardonable only in men of genius, Chaucer adopted the main features of the plot, and literally translated parts of Boccaccio’s work, without so much as mentioning the name of his Italian source. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Boccaccio, indeed, is the only figure worthy of mention, between Dante and Erasmus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Of the tales from Boccaccio, that of 'Cymon and Iphigenia' is on the whole the most pleasing. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 To such entertainments Boccaccio said that children frequently accompanied their parents. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The Idyll and the Novella formed, moreover, the most precious portion of Boccaccio's legacy. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z There are indeed few great poets who have not in some way become indebted to the inexhaustible treasure of Boccaccio’s creativeness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" I’ve run through the mythology, all that I know of it, and tried all the old novelists’ names, even Boccaccio and Cervantes. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 Boccaccio.—Since you cannot help me out, I must give up the conjecture, it seems, while it has cost me only half a century. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 He began to write, “so well” said Boccaccio “that he effaced the fame of poets that had been and menaced that of those to be.” Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Writing to please the mistress of his heart, and emulous of epic fame, Boccaccio rejected the usual apostrophes and envoys of the Cantori da Banca, and constructed a poem divided into books. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The treatment of the story by Boccaccio is not remarkable for originality or beauty, and the narrative is encumbered by classical allusions and allegorical conceits. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Boccaccio, in a more mundane atmosphere and a less august assemblage, also introduces us to this mediæval love of garlands. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens While this is not meant to be a nursery-book, it has been made virginibus puerisque, and for this reason, selections from Boccaccio, Rabelais and Balzac could not find their way into these pages. Devil Stories An Anthology Of course it was a less arduous attempt; the subject being one of directly human passion, the story ready-furnished to him by Boccaccio, and the narrative much briefer. Life of John Keats That Lorenzo was incapable of loving as Dante or Petrarch or even Boccaccio loved, is obvious in every verse he wrote. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is in this sense that Boccaccio is the creator of those innumerable beautiful types and stories, which have since become household words amongst civilized nations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" But, unfortunately for those who appreciate originality in a people, it was discovered that Boccaccio had been most unceremoniously plagiarized, and, what was still worse, that his defects had not been avoided. Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore Here we found a silk merchant from Nikosia waiting to see us, with a collection of the soft silks of the country, celebrated since the days of Boccaccio. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century The Trent Commissioners themselves prepared editions of certain prohibited authors, such as Clarius and Flaminius; Guicciardini was suffered to appear with retrenchments; and the famous revision of Boccaccio was carried out in 1573. The History of Freedom Indeed, the whole conditions of Italy had been altered since the death of Boccaccio in 1375. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z At the latter’s public examination in the noble science of poetry by the king, previous to his receiving the laurel crown at Rome, Boccaccio was present,—without, however, making his personal acquaintance at this period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" For let me tell you that colloquial Genoese doesn't take you very far into Dante or Boccaccio! Aliens Before it began he had already been making his own artistic experiments, and it is noteworthy that while he learnt so much from Boccaccio he improved on his originals as he translated them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" It will be remembered that the conclusion of Chaucer's "Troilus" compares in the same way with Boccaccio's and with the French translator's, Pierre de Beauveau. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare But while Dante points the sternest moral by their examples, Boccaccio makes their vices serve his end of comic humor. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z In the atmosphere of this gay court, enlivened and adorned by the wit of men and the beauty of women, Boccaccio lived for several years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" He probably did not meet Boccaccio, the author of the “Decameron.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Warned by his failure in Anelida and Arcyte, he was content this time to take his plot unaltered from the Filostrato, and to follow Boccaccio step by step through the poem. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Italian invasion of England—Italian books translated, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, &c. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare The levity of Boccaccio is nowhere more superficial than in that Novella. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z On reading Petrarch’s sonnets, Boccaccio resolved in a fit of despair to burn his own attempts, and only the kindly encouragement of his great friend prevented the holocaust. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" In a word, Deckar is more like Chaucer or Boccaccio; as Webster’s mind appears to have been cast more in the mould of Shakespeare’s, as well naturally as from studious emulation.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature In this great love-story there were no such restrictions, and the characters which Boccaccio’s treatment left thin and conventional became in Chaucer’s hands convincingly human. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" From Boccaccio, this tale was transferred by Paynter to his "Palace of Pleasure," and from this work, by Shakespeare, to the stage, under the name of "All's well." The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare With Dante he shares the chivalrous, with Boccaccio the humanistic side of the national element. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio evidently has tried to imitate the celebrated Trionfi of Petrarch, but without much success. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Perhaps the poem to which it bears the greatest similarity in our language, is Dryden’s Tancred and Sigismunda, taken from Boccaccio. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature They resemble the old facetious contes, whose simplicity and humour still live in the pages of Boccaccio, and are not forgotten in those of the Queen of Navarre. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 At the time when Italy produced Petrarca and Boccaccio, and France had Froissart, England produced Chaucer, the greatest of the four. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare Boccaccio first saw her in the church of S. Lawrence at Naples, April 7, 1341. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio boasts of the friendly terms on which he had been with the great potentates of Europe, the emperor and pope amongst the number. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Pope’s Eloise will bear this comparison; and after such a test, with Boccaccio for the original author, and Dryden for the translator, it need shrink from no other. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Boccaccio, impassioned by all his generous nature, though he regrets he could not raise a statue to Dante, has sent down to posterity more than marble, in the “Life.” Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 The ninth novel of the second day of the Decameron of Boccaccio tells a story much resembling the part of the play which concerns Posthumus. An Introduction to Shakespeare Though Boccaccio anticipates in his work the literature of the Renaissance, yet Petrarch was certainly not less influential as an authority in style. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio was justly proud of having been intimately connected with the foundation of the first chair of Greek in Italy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" I will mention three works which come as near to poetry as possible without absolutely being so, namely, the Pilgrim’s Progress, Robinson Crusoe, and the Tales of Boccaccio. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature We have two Lives of Dante, one by Boccaccio and the 415 other by Leonardo Aretino, both interesting: but Boccaccio’s is the sentimental life! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 It is a question whether the bitter tone of the play is due to the dramatist's intention or is the unforeseen result of reducing Boccaccio's improbable story to a living possibility. An Introduction to Shakespeare He is of opinion that Boccaccio may have derived it from some Byzantine source. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z A life of Dante, and the commentaries on the first sixteen cantos of the Inferno, bear witness to Boccaccio’s learning and enthusiasm. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Even in the "Decameron" of Boccaccio the stories are seldom localized: they happen almost anywhere at almost any time. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews Boccaccio narrates a dream of the mother of Dante so fancifully poetical, that probably Boccaccio forgot that none but a dreamer could have told it. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Boccaccio began at an early age to read the classical authors and to repent the years he had spent in the study of law and in commercial pursuits. History of Human Society But this seems hardly probable, since Boccaccio gained his knowledge of Greek later in life. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio seems to have acted on this valuable advice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The interest in Boccaccio's narrative, like the interest in Giotto's painting, is centered first of all in the element of action, and secondly in the element of character. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews Pathetic with all the sorrows, and eloquent with all the remonstrances of a fellow-citizen, Boccaccio, while he wept, hung with anger over his country’s shame in its apathy for the honour of its long-injured exile. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 It was Petrarch's example, more than anything else, which caused Boccaccio to turn his attention to literature. History of Human Society Boccaccio, on the contrary, sought to give the fullness and sonority of Latin to the periods of Italian prose. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z In 1374 the news of the loss of his dearest friend Petrarch reached Boccaccio, and from this blow he may be said to have never recovered. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Boccaccio, in the "Genealogy of the Gods," refers to a similar custom in his day in Florence, evidently the survival, or transmutation, of some heathen rite. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Boccaccio has beguiled my pen for half-an-hour with all the loves and fancies which sprung out of his own affectionate and romantic heart. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 But it remained for Boccaccio, who was of a more practical turn of mind than Petrarch, to systematize the classical knowledge of antiquity. History of Human Society The tentative essays and scattered preludings, the dreams and visions, the preparatory efforts of all previous modern literatures, had been completed, harmonized and presented to the world in the master-works of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z We are told that, finding himself by chance on the supposed grave of Virgil, near Naples, Boccaccio on that sacred spot took the firm resolution of devoting himself for ever to poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Her silk looms made her famous throughout the world, her banks were the purse of Europe, and among her famous sons were Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Macchiavelli, Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Amerigo Vespucci. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France He seems really to prefer Boccaccio and Ovid, to say nothing of Homer and Virgil. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) If Petrarch was an enthusiastic collector, Boccaccio was a practical worker. History of Human Society In the minor poems and romances, which have here been passed in review, except perhaps in the Fiammetta, Boccaccio cannot be said to take a place -127-among European writers of the first rank. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio’s poetry has been severely criticized by his countrymen, and most severely by the author himself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Under his direct influence, too, and inspired by Boccaccio, another Florentine picture—a cartoon of its great plague—was painted. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work He went to Italy, and, as he imbibed Italian literature, sympathised with the joyous spirit of Boccaccio and the eternal boyishness of classical art. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) His wholesale poetical belief, mixing up all creeds and mythologies, but with less violence, resembles that of Dante and Boccaccio. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Boccaccio embraces all human life, seen in the light of vivid fancy by a bourgeois who was also a great comic romantic poet. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is true, that compared with Dante’s grandeur and passion, and with Petrarch’s absolute mastership of metre and language, Boccaccio’s 103 poetry seems to be somewhat thrown into shade. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Engravings and other reproductions of the picture have made its design, at any rate, almost as familiar now as Boccaccio's tale itself. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work Even in the “Decameron” of Boccaccio the stories are seldom localized: they happen almost anywhere at almost any time. A Manual of the Art of Fiction The old man often went to look at and admire his Boccaccio in my Lord's library. Amaryllis at the Fair Boccaccio makes a jest of superstition; Masuccio thunders against the hypocrites who bring religion into contempt. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z But more than all this, Boccaccio regretted the separation from his beloved Fiammetta. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Down with the monk whose missal is Boccaccio! Dreamers of the Ghetto The interest in Boccaccio’s narrative, like the interest in Giotto’s painting, is centred first of all in the element of action, and secondly in the element of character. A Manual of the Art of Fiction Emmy's laughter rings in my ears, as bright, Fresh and sweet as the voice of a mountain brook, And still I hear her telling us tales that night, Out of Boccaccio's book. Silhouettes Boccaccio turns the world round for his recreation, submitting its follies to the subtle play of analytical fancy. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is more probable, however, that Boccaccio adopted it from that sweetest and purest blossom of medieval French literature, Aucassin et Nicolette, which dates from the 13th century, and was undoubtedly known to him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" However, he now learned to know at least something of the six great luminaries, Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, Tasso, Boccaccio, and Machiavelli. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 In 1559, he accompanied his father to Venice, and there perused the best Italian authors, especially Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Let us die so, Like lovers in Boccaccio. Silhouettes Boccaccio's pictures are toned with a rare perception of harmony and delicate gradation. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The claim of Paris has been supported by Baldelli and Tiraboschi, mainly on the ground that his mother was a lady of good family in that city, where she met Boccaccio’s father. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The Renaissance does not mean a single Dante, nor Boccaccio, but a national enthusiasm and a "god within all minds." A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character I understood what your passage from Boccaccio meant, and why you came in here praising spring in its words. Imaginary Interviews Thus, when she married Ambrose Gifford, a new world was opened to her by such books as Surrey's Translation of the �neid, and Painter's Tales from Boccaccio. Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney Boccaccio was a bourgeois of the fourteenth century; but his character, as stamped on the Decameron, was common to Italy during the next two hundred years. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z He always signed his name Boccaccio da Certaldo, and named that town as his birthplace in his own epitaph. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" One is the scarcity of literature, excepting historical chronicles, until the time of Boccaccio and the Italian storytellers. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome The story told by Boccaccio is well known. Dante: His Times and His Work It was nothing to her that numerous poets and authors, from Edmund Spenser to many humbler craftsmen of the pen, were busy translating from the Italian the tales of Boccaccio, or the Latin of Virgil. Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney Boccaccio in his Comedy depicts the life of this earth only, subtracting whatsoever may suggest a life to come. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z But, whoever he may have been, Boccaccio’s master was unable to inspire his pupil with scientific ardour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" It is an anecdote to be told in the Boccaccio manner—gracefully, with humour, with much indulgence ... otherwise, it might be the sort of story they tell in hell.” Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange And Benvenuto, it may be noted, though devoted to Boccaccio, was no mere student, but a shrewd and critical man of the world. Dante: His Times and His Work The great leaders of Italy were Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. History of Education Here the genius of Italy became conscious of itself, and here the people found a spokesman in Boccaccio. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Another link between Boccaccio’s epic and English literature is formed by the fact of Chaucer having in the Knight’s Tale adopted its main features. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Critics think him the precursor of Boccaccio, and history knows him as the friend of Dante, whose Divina Commedia he travestied in Hebrew. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Dante also went to Bologna, as it would appear, both before and after his banishment; yet while Villani and Boccaccio only name the latter visit, Benvenuto speaks only of the former. Dante: His Times and His Work Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio in the fourteenth century inspired men with their new ideas, and set in motion influences which were attended with results often far from good. History of Education Abandoning ecclesiastical and feudal traditions, Boccaccio concentrated his force upon the delineation of his fellow-countrymen as he had learned to know them. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z This latter feature, so charmingly displayed in Boccaccio’s prose, has to some extent proved fatal to his verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Here Catiline conspired, and Milton wrote; here Michael Angelo occupied his studio, and Galileo conducted his discoveries, while here, also, Boccaccio wrote his famous love tales. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Shakespeare worked over the Italian novelle of Boccaccio, weaving them into his great English dramas, and nobody censured him. Paul and the Printing Press Your old uncle hears in these myriad-voiced fountains the musical instruments which Boccaccio gave to the Satyrs; 'cymbals, pipes, and whistling reeds,' and the song of the nymphs. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) Thus Boccaccio fully represents one factor of what I have called the national element. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z About the year 1341 Boccaccio returned to Florence by command of his father, who in his old age desired the assistance and company of his son. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" With Boccaccio the same genius proclaimed the beauty of the world, the goodliness of youth, and strength and love and life, unterrified by hell, unappalled by the shadow of impending death. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Besides furnishing the early playwrights with material for miracle plays, it has supplied episodes and apologues to many a writer, including Boccaccio, John Gower and Shakespeare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" It was certainly planned as early as 1555 by way of a supplement to Lydgate's translation of Boccaccio's Fall of Princes. A History of Elizabethan Literature There is a passage in the De Remediis utriusque Fortunæ, where the lyrist of chivalrous love pours such contempt on women as his friend Boccaccio might have envied. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is perhaps the most astounding instance in literature of ingenuity wasted on trifles; even Edgar Poe, had he known Boccaccio’s puzzle, must have confessed himself surpassed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Petrarch poring over a Homer he could not understand, and Boccaccio in his maturity learning Greek, in order that he might drink from the well-head of poetic inspiration, are the heroes of this period. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Darkened houses, silence—Rabelais and Boccaccio debate the immaculate conception. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Even with such a master of that craft as Boccaccio before them, not all the Italian novelists could catch the pattern; and the French, perhaps naturally enough, were slower still. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The coming age was destined to live out Boccaccio's Human Comedy in act and deed. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z When in the following year the Florentines were anxious to draw men of great reputation to their newly-founded university, it was again Boccaccio who insisted on the claims of Petrarch to the most distinguished position. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Boccaccio, however, did not hold this liberal view consistently. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion, might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers." Pearls of Thought It was not Boccaccio's verse but his prose that was really to influence the French Novel. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Boccaccio aims at a synthetic presentation of all he means to say; and he calls nothing by its right name, if he can devise a periphrasis. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio himself told that, on asking to see the library of the celebrated monastery of Monte Cassino, he was shown into a dusty room without a door to it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" In Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio Italy recovered the consciousness117 of intellectual liberty. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 In On Purge Bébé he has written saucy variations on a theme which Rabelais, Boccaccio, George Moore, and Molière in collaboration would have found difficult to handle. The Merry-Go-Round She was a lady of Messina, who lived in the beginning of the fourteenth century; and was the contemporary of Queen Joanna, of Petrarch and Boccaccio. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical Boccaccio was neither born in wedlock nor yet of pure Italian blood. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z He bought or copied with his own hand numerous valuable manuscripts, and an old writer remarks that if Boccaccio had been a professional copyist, the amount of his work might astonish us. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Giotto, tending his sheep, began to draw pictures of things as he saw them, Savonarola awoke the conscience, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio—a string of names to conjure with—all roused the intellect. The Tapestry Book As the effigies of Byzantine art became living men and women beneath the pencil of Giotto, so the mere imitative poetry of the Sicilian Court became Italian literature in Dante and Boccaccio. Stray Studies from England and Italy And she was reading thus heavily and slowly, by firelight in the midst of this tremendous Northern night, Keats’s version 5 of Boccaccio’s “Tale of Isabella and the Pot of Basil.” The Branding Iron Boccaccio may indeed have meant to bring his group of pleasure-seeking men and maidens into strong relief by contrast with the horrors of the stricken city. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Like Defoe, Boccaccio had to draw largely on hearsay and his own imagination, it being almost certain that in 1348 he was at Naples, and therefore no eye-witness of the scenes he describes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Boccaccio's Tales were known in England before the invention of printing. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. I am in doubt as to the pictures heading the chapters, but think these most probably his, only following the usual style of such illustrations to Boccaccio, and consequently more Italianised than the others. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti But the "hyena bigots" of Certaldo tore up the tombstone of Boccaccio and ejected it from the holy precincts of St. Michael and St. James. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 The cynicism, liberated in that time of terror, lawlessness, and sudden death, assumed in Boccaccio's romance a beautiful and graceful aspect. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio has been accused of plagiarism, particularly by French critics, who correctly state that the subjects of many stories in the Decameron are borrowed from their literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" They cease; then lo! the foot of time seems stayed Five hundred years and more, I find me bowers Where sweet and noble ladies weave them flowers For one who reads Boccaccio in the shade. Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series We find the same fault, though not to the same extent, with his "Scene from Boccaccio." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Boccaccio to his parent earth bequeathed His dust. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Like Balzac, Boccaccio was unsuccessful in depicting virtuous womanhood. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is uncertain where Boccaccio passed these six years of bondage; most likely he followed his master to various centres of commerce in Italy and France. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" It belongs in the same class with the famous letter of Fra Ilario, and like that, seems not unlikely to have been an invention of Boccaccio's. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 If this be so, the narrative is even less historically reliable than the Fiametta of Boccaccio. The God of Love I have remarked elsewhere," says Petrarch, writing to Boccaccio, "that the book itself has been worried by certain dogs, but stoutly defended by your staff and voice. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 She stands midway between the Beatrice of Dante and the women of Boccaccio. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z About 1333 Boccaccio settled for some years at Naples, apparently sent there by his father to resume his mercantile pursuits, the canon law being finally abandoned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Boccaccio also lent his aid in the revival of literature, and wrote a series of witty, though objectionable stories, from which the English Chaucer borrowed the notion of his "Canterbury Tales." A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges But the people in Boccaccio managed to enjoy themselves while the plague was at Florence. One Man's Initiation—1917 The Marchioness Lenzoni rescued the tombstone of Boccaccio from the neglect in which it had some time lain, and found for it an honourable elevation in her own mansion. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Yet this must not be taken to imply any lack of originality in Boccaccio. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio undoubtedly calls himself a Florentine, but this may refer merely to the Florentine citizenship acquired by his grandfather. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Olympia: The Latin Text of Boccaccio's Fourteenth Eclogue, with an English rendering, and other supplementary matter, by Israel Gollancz, Litt.D., and a Photogravure facsimile of a part of the MS. A History of the United States The collections of Niccolò I know were larger; but take any collection which is the work of a single man—that of the great Boccaccio even—mine will surpass it. Romola It is neither the licentiousness of the writer, nor the evil propensities of the reader, which have given to the Decameron alone, of all the works of Boccaccio, a perpetual popularity. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 But independently of this effect of contrast, which might be used to illustrate the author's life-philosophy, the description of the Plague has a still deeper significance, whereof Boccaccio never dreamed. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is by the name of “Father of Italian Prose” that Boccaccio ought to be chiefly remembered. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Boccaccio had lived, Leonardo was at the height of his glory. A History of the United States Stockdale said that "Boccaccio" was "wronger" than Dumas, and that his people had warned him against the stories of this Italian. Confessions of a Book-Lover Fifty-one years after his death, they endowed a professorial chair for the expounding of his verses, and Boccaccio was appointed to this patriotic employment. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Boccaccio's sense of beauty has already been alluded to; and it so pervades his work that special attention need scarcely be called to it. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Like most progressive movements in art and literature, Boccaccio’s remoulding of Italian prose may be described as a “return to nature.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" All the rapture of her existing freedom came back on her, while her brain, fertile in forecast of adventure, projected scenes and situations not unworthy of the pen of Boccaccio himself. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance One day, however, I discovered somewhere, under a pile of old geometries and books about navigation, a fat, red-bound copy of "Boccaccio." Confessions of a Book-Lover Dante, it is true, had given to the world his immortal vision, and Boccaccio, its first expounder, had shown the capabilities of Italian prose. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 That Boccaccio was not the inventor of the stanza, as used to be assumed, may now be considered beyond all question. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z For ten years Boccaccio continued to reside in Florence, leaving the city only occasionally on diplomatic missions or on visits to his friends. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Boccaccio feigning priests to be members of the Holy Family, by virtue of their office. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio The "Boccaccio" was, as I have said, fat and large. Confessions of a Book-Lover The story of Isabella he took from Boccaccio, an Italian writer of the fourteenth century, whose Decameron, a collection of one hundred stories, has been a store-house of plots for English writers. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 From this point of view Boccaccio's Life of Dante is instructive. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z In the following year took place that strange turning-point in Boccaccio’s career which is generally described as his conversion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The word speranza is, however, constantly used by Dante and his follower Boccaccio in the contrary sense of "fear," and may be so meant in the present instance. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Men made more account of a story of Boccaccio's, it was said, than of a story from the Bible. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 By Boccaccio the tale is very shortly and simply told, being evidently interesting to him mainly for its plot. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Boccaccio tries to pour the new wine of the Renaissance into the old bottles of medieval allegory. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z When the Florentines established a chair for the explanation of the Divina Commedia in their university, and offered it to Boccaccio, the senescent poet at once undertook the arduous duty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" This is a flagrant instance of the misuse of ellipsis, which so frequently disfigures Boccaccio's dialogue. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio It did not pass into any of the Occidental versions, although it was known to Boccaccio, who based on it the fifth novel of the first day of the Decameron. Italian Popular Tales Keats wants to make it clear that he is not trying to surpass Boccaccio, but to give him currency amongst English-speaking people. l. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 It remained for Boccaccio, the third in the triumvirate, to treat of common life with art no less developed. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio, a contemporary and friend of Petrarch, declared that Laura had no existence outside of the imagination of the poet. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers The word nuovo is constantly used by Boccaccio in the latter sense, as is consiglio in its remoter signification of means, remedy, etc. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Oriental elements are also found in the French fabliaux which are supposed to have furnished Boccaccio with the plots of a number of his novels. Italian Popular Tales Keats envies the un-self-conscious simplicity of the old ballad-writers in treating such a theme as this, and bids the reader turn to Boccaccio, whose description of the scene he cannot hope to rival. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Boccaccio was the typical Italian bourgeois, the representative of a class who finally determined the Renaissance. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z But Boccaccio was a poet with a roistering proclivity, and truth to such a one in a love-affair is out of the question. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Boccaccio constantly uses this irregular form of enallage, especially in dialogue. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio The countrymen of Boccaccio would have smiled at the idea which the German scholar entertained of them. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I Chaucer, the English Boccaccio in verse, attacks alike with his sarcasms the Church and the female sex. The Superstitions of Witchcraft This is not the place to treat of Boccaccio's scholarship. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio had to defend himself continually from charges, which most people knew were true, and so by habit he grew to deny everything, not only for himself, but for his friends. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Boccaccio has garbled the passage for the sake of his point. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Boccaccio had made them the subject of ridicule in his popular stories. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 With regard to some of the other great world-classics, Boccaccio has been attempted by many translators, none of whom can be said to have succeeded, and I forbear to recommend any English version. The Book-Hunter at Home It may be pleaded in defense of Boccaccio and his followers that they belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and that they wrote for a public familiar with painted form. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z He doted on a well-turned sentence, while the thing that caught the eye of Boccaccio was a well-turned ankle. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers This may also be rendered "by tempest," fortuna being a name for a squall or hurricane, which Boccaccio uses elsewhere in the same sense. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio In this particular they are scarcely less objectionable than those of Boccaccio. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 Immortal the laurels that decked the fair throng, And Dante moved by with his lyre, While Montaigne and Pascal stood rapt by his song, And Boccaccio paused to admire. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries We are left to imagine that, for Boccaccio at any rate, Venus, Mars and Cupid were as real as Christ and the saints, though superseded as objects of pious veneration. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Accordingly, a phalanx of the most hardy veterans has been enrolled under the banner of the far-famed Valdarfer's Boccaccio of 1471. . . . The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting It need hardly be remarked that the passage in question does not bear the interpretation Boccaccio would put upon it. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Aristotle, Boethius, Boccaccio, and Dante figure in the list, the latter both in Italian and in French. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 But there were social as well as moral reasons for the depreciation of Malory and Boccaccio. John Lyly Boccaccio, though he paints the surface of life, paints it in a way to suggest the inner springs of character, and to bring the motives of action vividly before us. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Shortly after this event the two noble collectors were dining with the Duke, and the subject of Boccaccio was purposely broached. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting This story has been a prodigious stumbling-block to former translators, not one of whom appears to have had the slightest idea of Boccaccio's meaning. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio And because of faithless servants Landor has wisely made Boccaccio say of Rome: "She, I think will be the last city to rise from the dead." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 The novella, which, at our period, had become thoroughly naturalized in Italy, under the auspices of Boccaccio, had originally sprung from the fabliaux of 13th century France. John Lyly If the phrase "art for art" can be used in speaking of one who was unconscious of the-104- theory it implies, Boccaccio may be selected as the typical artist for art's sake. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z In translating Boccaccio's Falls of Princes he dispenses with stylistic ornament. Early Theories of Translation This word has been another grievous stumbling block to the French and English translators of Boccaccio, who render it literally "courtier." The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Ovid and Malory, Homer and Boccaccio, Drake and Sanazzaro, were all contributors. The Facts About Shakespeare She appears first in the pages of Boccaccio. The Task of Social Hygiene It remains to speak about Boccaccio's prose, and the relation of his style to that of other trecentisti. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Painter, accurate as he is in describing his sources, confesses that he has often used the French version of Boccaccio, though, or perhaps because, it is less finely written than its original. Early Theories of Translation It is now inhabited, but appears in Boccaccio's time to have been desert. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio At that time Petrarch and Boccaccio were long since dead, France had no poet of renown, and Chaucer was without comparison the greatest poet of Europe. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance And if the costumes were not as picturesque as those in Vedder's fine picture, the ladies were as lovely, the gentlemen as gallant, and all much better behaved than those of Boccaccio's party. Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag The octave stanza, which in the hands of Boccaccio was languid and diffuse, in the hands of Lorenzo harsh, in the hands of Pulci rugged, became under Poliziano's treatment an inexhaustible instrument of varying melodies. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It has all Boccaccio between its walls, all Petrarca in its leaves, all Raffaelle in its skies. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida It is apparently to this circumstance that Boccaccio alludes in the text. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio The idea of "Troilus and Criseyde," borrowed from Boccaccio, had been transformed; the general plan and the setting of the "Tales" are modified more profoundly yet. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance “I like to fancy we are fugitives—like Boccaccio’s merry company—from the plague of our daily prose, to this garden of sweet poetry!” cried Miss Du Prel. The Daughters of Danaus We have already seen how that had been achieved by Boccaccio and Sacchetti, and afterwards in a measure by Lorenzo de' Medici. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z When Petrarca entered the chamber, he found Boccaccio with his breviary in his hand, not looking into it indeed, but repeating a thanksgiving in an audible and impassioned tone of voice. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Boccaccio has a knack, very trying to the translator, of constantly using words in an obscure or strained sense. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Before his journeys he was ignorant of Italian literature; now he knows Italian, and has read the great classic authors of the Tuscan land: Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Dante. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance His "Knight's Tale" is little more than a paraphrase of "Boccaccio's Teseoide." Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Even Boccaccio alluded contemptuously to chivalrous romance, as fit reading only for idle women; and when he attempted an epical poem in octave stanzas, he chose a tale of ancient Greece. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Boccaccio had risen and was standing at the open window, with his arms against it. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection It was not so in the fourteenth century, when not only Chaucer in England, but Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio in Italy, attained literary heights to which none of their French contemporaries even approached. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Boccaccio's Griselda has nothing to be compared to those degrees in feeling and tenderness. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance His acute genius, and ardent application, rivalled those poetic models which he admired; and Boccaccio was thirty-five years of age when he commenced his studies in polite literature. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 It is rather the type of Boccaccio's character, refined and purged of sensuality, with delicate touches of irony and a more fastidious taste, that meets us in this portrait of Ariosto painted by himself. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Could a neighbour, a religious one in particular, be indifferent to the welfare of Boccaccio, or any belonging to him? Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The vivifying touch was brought by Boccaccio, and Boccaccio falls out of our story. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) She looks at her lover and dies, like the Simonne of Boccaccio and of Musset. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance In a letter to me dated November 4th, 1876, he says:— “I have taken refuge from the Eastern Question in Boccaccio, just as the ‘piacevoli Donne’ who tell the Stories escaped from the Plague. Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) It was the aim of Italian poets after Boccaccio to effect-481- a fusion between the classical and modern styles, and to ingraft the beauties of antique literature upon their own language. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z I am convinced that so well-behaved a young creature as Assunta—— Boccaccio. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection But between Benoît and Boccaccio there is another personage who concerns us very distinctly. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) In his turn, and after Boccaccio, he invents a plot that will allow him to insert a whole series of tales and stories into one single work; compositions of this sort being the fashion. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance I make a kind of Summer in my Room here with Boccaccio. Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Boiardo, far more a child of nature than either Boccaccio or Poliziano, with deeper sympathy for feudal traditions and chivalrous modes of feeling, attacked this problem from a point of view directly opposite to theirs. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z And certainly such were they, if we compare them with Galileo and Boccaccio and Dante. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection This poet has been warmly praised by M. Giovanni Boccaccio in the introduction to the story of M. Forese da Rabatta. The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) The most celebrated collection was Boccaccio's, written in delightful Italian prose, a many-sided work, edifying and licentious at the same time, a work audacious in every way, even from a literary point of view. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance As Don Quixote can only be read in his Spanish, so I do fancy Boccaccio only in his Italian: and yet one is used to fancy that Poetry is the mainly untranslateable thing. Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) It was then, in the days of Bembo and Sperone, that Boccaccio took rank with Petrarch as an infallible authority on points of language. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z That cottage on the declivity was Dante’s: that square and large mansion, with a circular garden before it elevated artificially, was the first scene of Boccaccio’s Decameron. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Besides the one related by M. Giovanni Boccaccio, several very good stories are told by Franco Sacchetti in his "Three Hundred Tales." The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) In order to treat of this subject, and of many others, Boccaccio had conceived the idea of his gathering in the villa near Florence, and Chaucer that of his pilgrimage. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance He too, is celebrated by Boccaccio, as a man of joyous memory. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) When Boccaccio breathed his last, men felt that the elder sources of inspiration had failed, and that no more could be expected from the spirit of the previous centuries. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z His Fables—modernizations from Chaucer and translations from Boccaccio—written the year before he died, are among his best works. Brief History of English and American Literature What this may be is best exampled by our harlequinades, in which very much of Boccaccio's bent still survives. Little Novels of Italy About one-third of Chaucer's poem is derived from Boccaccio. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance The first worthy successor of Giotto in the Florentine school, was Buffalmacco, whose name has been immortalized by Boccaccio in his Decameron, as a man of most facetious character. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) The collection is divided into twenty-five days; and since each lover tells a tale, there are fifty Novelle, interspersed with songs after the fashion of Boccaccio. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z |
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