Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet.
| Date of Birth | : | 16 Jun, 1313 |
| Date of Death | : | 21 Dec, 1375 |
| Place of Birth | : | Tuscany, Italy |
| Profession | : | Writer, Poet |
| Nationality | : | Italy |
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars (including Vittore Branca) define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.
Biography
The details of Boccaccio's birth are uncertain. He was born in Florence or in a village near Certaldo where his family was from. He was the son of Florentine merchant Boccaccino di Chellino and an unknown woman; he was likely born out of wedlock. Boccaccio's stepmother was called Margherita de' Mardoli.
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
it is obvious that all vices have a grievous effect on those who indulge them and often on others too. But I believe that the one which can transport us with the most unbridled haste into danger is anger. This is nothing other than a sudden thoughtless impulse, provoked by some perceived offence, which banishes reason and clouds the eyes of the mind, rousing the soul to blazing fury.
The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.
Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.
here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men.
They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell.
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
