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Preface vii
Introduction xi
CHAPTER
I. Boccaccio's Parentage, Birth, and Childhood 3
II. His Arrival in Naples—His Years with the Merchant—His Abandonment of Trade and Entry on the Study of Canon Law 15
III. His Meeting with Fiammetta and the Periods of their Love Story 27
IV. The Years of Courtship—The Reward—The Betrayal—The Return To Florence 41
V. Boccaccio's Early Works—The Filocolo—The Filostrato—The Teseide—The Ameto—The Fiammetta—The Ninfale Fiesolano 61
VI. In Florence—His Father's Second Marriage—The Duke of Athens 96
VII. In Naples—The Accession of Giovanna—The Murder of Andrew of Hungary—The Vengeance 108
VIII. In Romagna—The Plague—The Death of Fiammetta 119
IX. The Rime—The Sonnets To Fiammetta 130
X. Boccaccio as Ambassador—The Meeting with Petrarch 145
XI. Two Embassies 162
XII. Boccaccio's Attitude to Woman—The Corbaccio 170
XIII. Leon Pilatus and the Translation of Homer—The Conversion of Boccaccio 189
XIV. The Embassies to the Pope—Visits to Venice and Naples—Boccaccio's Love of Children 207
XV. Petrarch and Boccaccio—The Latin Works 223
XVI. Dante and Boccaccio—The Vita—and the Comento 249
XVII. Illness and Death 279
XVIII. The Decameron 291
APPENDICES
I. The Dates of Boccaccio's Arrival in Naples and of his Meeting with Fiammetta 319
II. Document of the Sale of "Corbignano" (called now "Casa di Boccaccio") by Boccaccio in 1336 325
III. From "La Villeggiatura di Maiano," a MS. by Ruberto Gherardi; a Copy of which is in Possession of Mrs. Ross, of Poggio Gherardo, near Settignano, Florence 335
IV. The Acrostic of the Amorosa Visione dedicating the Poem to Fiammetta 348
V. The Will of Giovanni Boccaccio 350
VI. English Works on Boccaccio 355
VII. Boccaccio and Chaucer and Shakespeare 360
VIII. Synopsis of the Decameron, together with some Works to be consulted 367
IX. An Index to the Decameron 394
Index 409

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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