Giovanni Boccaccio

At the age of eight Petrarch saw Dante for the first and only time. One of the most important friendships of his life was that with Boccaccio .

M. B.'s purpose in story-telling is not moral improvement but making little girls feel better (the youngest is seven): cheering them up since, newly sent to boarding school, they are crying for home; alleviating their...

These novellas follow at more than one remove writers further back than Painter (Boccaccio , Matteo Bandello , Marguerite de Navarre , and Chaucer ) in refashioning and retelling traditional stories. Most dated back...

MAB 's discussion of schools leads her into an account of a visit made by the Norwegian missionary, Bishop Schreuder , to a later Zulu chief, Cetshwayo , taken from a blue-book or government report...

The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found this method of compiling stories (the method of Boccaccio , Marguerite de Navarre , and Chaucer ) effective for stringing together a number of diverse tales told...

The publishers' advertising contained a submerged allusion to Jaeger's following here of the concept of Boccaccio 's Decameron, dating from nearly six hundred years earlier.

MP adapted this from the eighth tale of Boccaccio 's second day. She begins with a formal invocation of her Muse, and a statement that her subject-matter will be the various Turns of Virtue in...

The text consists of twenty-four pieces written by Ford and previously published in the Outlook and the Daily News, which are connected here by VH 's linking prose. Hunt's biographer Barbara Belford refers to...

Whereas Boccaccio 's tale-tellers had retired to a country house while the plague raged in town, and those in Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales were on pilgrimage, Marguerite de Navarre 's travellers are stranded at an...

The title too was posthumously applied, on the analogy of Boccaccio 's Decameron, meaning tales from ten days. Marguerite de Navarre probably intended, as he did, a collection of a hundred stories, but she...

CC published The Tranquil Heart: Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio, a biography she undertook because of Boccaccio 's declaration that he wrote for women.

She says in her preface: Again and again Boccaccio repeated that he wrote for women's instruction and delight, yet none but men have written about him. She called the Decameronthat radiant and lovely...

She thought, after this, of writing a poem on Timoleon, the Greek liberator of Syracuse in the fourth century BC. Instead, however, she started work on Middlemarch. In 1869 she wrote and published two...

FW issued The Spa Decameron, a work whose title defines it as a collection, like Boccaccio 's, of tales contributed by upper-class people sharing a temporary space.

Having accepted her novel Seven Poor Men of Sydney, Peter Llewelyn Davies had wanted to publish it as her second work, to follow something else less unconventional. He got as far as advertising another...