which included Penthesilea. Between 1361 and 1362 the Italian Giovanni Boccaccio wrote the first collection of biographies in Western literature that was...

Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato. The title means "the one struck down by love". There is an overt purpose to the text. In the proem, Boccaccio himself...

this work of Boccaccio. He may be the Roman author of this name once mentioned by Servius, he may be a 9th-century Campagnian, or Boccaccio may have made...

in the Battle of Pieve al Toppo in 1288, where according to Giovanni Boccaccio, he preferred to die in battle rather than live in poverty. Probably "Lano"...

through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and even the early modern period. Boccaccio devoted a passage of his Genealogies of the Pagan Gods to purported archeological...

writings of his time. Gault de Saint-Germain said of him that "Ariosto, Boccaccio, La Fontaine were his inspirers and his ingenious teachers, spiritual...

as relief carvings on Roman sarcophagi. The subject of the Attic calyx-krater from Orvieto conserved in the Musée du Louvre has provided the name for...