![]() ![]() However, the output that he was encouraging was Latin because Latin was really the lingua franca of Europeans who were educated. Then in 1350, a little after the plague, he met Francesco Petrarca, Petrarch, who is usually credited as being the "father" of the Renaissance who propagandized, especially for the recovery of ancient Latin language and civilization, and was pretty much successful. Most of these are good, but they're not great literature and really are read primarily and taught primarily by medievalists. In Naples he began writing poems very much in the medieval vein: love poems, dream visions, long romantic ethics. And he developed his literary taste there as he had earlier in Florence. Naples was the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. ![]() But at Naples, he was admitted into the circles around the court. His father wanted him to go into banking. Wayne Rebhorn: Boccaccio was born about 25 miles outside of Florence to a guy who worked for the Bardi Bank. I was hoping you could talk more specifically about who he was as a thinker, who he was as a writer, and how he comes at around age 40 to write this book that has lasted for centuries. ![]() Why the Classics: A lot of people vaguely know what the Decameron is and vaguely know who Giovanni Boccaccio was. Boccaccio argued for sexual and intellectual liberation. ![]()
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