- Detailed information about Boccaccio and the Decameron.www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml
- An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia ...www.newadvent.org/cathen/02607a.htm
- THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Giovanni Boccaccio is, with the older Dante and the contemporary Francis Petrarch, one of the three great poets of the Italian fourteenth century. Chaucer knew the works of all three, and it has been speculated that he may even have met both Petrarch and Boccaccio (but see below). Of the three, Boccaccio was the one on whom Chaucer drew ...www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/boccaccio
- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron was written in 1350 in the Tuscan dialect of Italian. This translation is dated 16 and is by . Instructor's note:If you know the translator and the date, please let me know at elknox@topgun.idbsu.edu. I got this copy off the net, but I don't recollect the site. Induction Book One, Day One ...www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/decameron/decameron.html