Giovanni Boccaccio: The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love

Download or read book Giovanni Boccaccio: The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a translation of Boccaccio`s "Il libro di Difinizioni", first translated into English by "H.G." (probably Henry Grantham) in London, 1566. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of virtually all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot.