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A literary figure of the early Italian Renaissance. In ``The Decameron,'' he vividly depicted society and human conditions during the Black Death. He is a person who considers the changes in literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
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The Decameron
1349–1353
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Born into the world of Tuscan merchants, he was exposed to court culture and urban commerce in Naples and Florence. In Italian cities at the end of the Middle Ages, the cultures of merchants, clergy, and aristocrats intersected.
In ``The Decameron,'' he composed a hundred stories as frame stories, depicting love, wit, religious criticism, and urban life in slang. He interacted with Petrarch and also engaged in classical research.
The story is told by young people who fled the Black Death, and the story combines the horror of the plague with the laughter and desires of humans in the same work. It has the power to transform serious times into secular literature.
When you study Boccaccio, you will see that Renaissance literature developed not only through classical revival, but also by incorporating the realities of urban society, human desires, and slang expressions. I can also see the path to modern novels. It can also be used for comparison with surrounding areas from the same era.
