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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 |
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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 |