Boccaccio the decameron6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() He studied at the University of Naples from 1330-13, pursuing all the while his humanistic interests of poetry and scholarship. In the end, Boccaccio managed to convince his father that a banker’s life was not for him, but only on the condition that he study canon law. That said, his father’s position as a financial advisor at the Angevin court of Naples gave Boccaccio access to the aristocratic and literary circles of the city.Ī Tale from the Decameron by John William Waterhouse, 1916 (Wikimedia Commons) Even at a young age, Boccaccio found a passion for poetry that spurred him to resist his father’s efforts to make him a banker. He was finally recognized by his father shortly before 1320, and was given a good Latin education before being sent to Naples to apprentice at the prominent Bardi banking house at the age of 13. The date of his birth, 1313, is an approximation, and it remains disputed whether he was born in Florence or in the nearby town of Certaldo. Giovanni Boccaccio, poet, writer, erstwhile banker and lawyer, was the illegitimate son of a prominent Tuscan merchant. ![]()
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