A Fabulous, yet Sad, Life: Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio!  He is inextricably connected with the Renaissance, just as Petrarch is.  Boccaccio was a man of the Renaissance in almost every sense. Born to a Tuscan merchant Boccaccio di Chellino, Giovanni came into the world in the summer of 1313.  The exact date and place of Giovanni’s birth...