Excerpt from Boccaccio on Poetry: Being the Preface and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth, Books of Boccaccio's Genealogia Deorum Gentilium in an English Version Wit

Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.

Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the D

Long celebrated as one of “the Three Crowns” of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and