A Singular Boccaccio: Defending Poetry in the Decameron and the Genealogie

By Martin Eisner

This essay reconsiders the conventional division of Boccaccio’s career into two parts that is usually associated with his first meeting with Petrarch. Beginning with two fourteenth-century portraits of Boccaccio, it challenges this traditional…

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