Si terrà venerdì 10 novembre, presso la Sala Comparetti dell’Università di Firenze, ore 10, ingresso libero, la giornata di ...

In lockdown the world can become almost a single room. Our minds turn inward, and when so much of what we listen to, watch or read is about symptoms and statistics and far off vaccines, it’s hardly ...

The deadly plague arrived in the noble city of Florence, Italy. It had begun in the East, where it deprived countless beings of their lives before it headed for the West, spreading ever greater misery ...

Loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century collection of short stories, the series follows a group of Italian nobles and servants who flee to the countryside to escape the Black Death Based on ...

With the autobiographically based character of Idalogos in the Filocolo (1336), Boccaccio portrays his own educational initiation as instruction in astronomy by a teacher he calls "Calmeta," to whose ...

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is best known as the author of “The Decameron,” short stories that he crafted in the vernacular, challenging the prestige of Latin as the language of great art. Chaucer ...

NORWALK — The Rev. Michael Boccaccio does not believe in reincarnation. He is Catholic after all. But if, by some chance, he does come back in another life, he wants to be a seagull. “I love flying, I ...

Twenty years ago, at a panel in Washington, D.C., I asked a colleague, an art historian, when she believed the Renaissance began. "With Giotto," she responded. "How about in literature?" she rejoinded ...

Virgile, Ovide, Omer, Lucan, and Stace. (V.1786-92) [2] [5] For notice of this reference, see the brief mention in the note to vv. 1789-92 in the Riverside Chaucer, C.D. Benson’s edition of F.N.

Boccaccio Restaurant in Harbor East was sold at auction Wednesday for $1.45 million after the Italian restaurant stood empty for more than a year following the death of the owner. About 50 people ...