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The Knight of Malta — is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy in the canon of John Fletcher and his collaborators. It was initially published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647.Date and sourceNo firm information is available on the play s date of… … Wikipedia
Filocolo, Il — by Giovanni Boccaccio (ca. 1336) One of BOCCACCIO’s earliest works, composed during the young writer’s first years of independence in Naples between 1336 and 1338, the lengthy prose ROMANCE Il Filocolo (Love’s labor) has been called the… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
The Decameron — For other uses, see Decameron (disambiguation). The Decameron … Wikipedia
The Franklin's Tale — Dorigen and Aurelius, from Mrs. Haweis s, Chaucer for Children (1877). Note the black rocks in the sea and the setting of the garden, a typical site for courtly love. The Franklin s Tale (Middle English: The Frankeleyns Tale) is one of The… … Wikipedia
Genealogia Deorum Gentilium — Giovanni Boccaccio Genealogia deorum gentilium, known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and… … Wikipedia
De Casibus Virorum Illustrium — On the Fates of Famous Men Illuminated recto from Parisian edition (1467) Author(s) … Wikipedia
Giovanni Boccaccio — Giovanni Boccaccio † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Giovanni Boccaccio Italian novelist, b. in Paris, 1313; d. in Certaldo, 21 December, 1375. His father, a merchant from Certaldo and a man of some prominence in Florence, had gone into… … Catholic encyclopedia
De mulieribus claris — De claris mulieribus Boccaccio … Wikipedia
Boccaccio, Giovanni — (1313 1375) One of the three great Italian authors of the 14th century (along with Dante and Petrarch) who established the Tuscan dialect as Italy s literary language. Born near Florence to a merchant employed by the Bardi bank and a woman… … Historical Dictionary of Renaissance
Corbaccio — Il Corbaccio, or The Crow , is a late medieval (and/or early Renaissance) Italian literary work by Giovanni Boccaccio, traditionally dated ca. 1355.[1] Boccaccio is most famous as the author of The Decameron (completed ca. 1351 2), another work… … Wikipedia
