Thomas G. Bergin
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Thomas Goddard Bergin was an American scholar of Italian literature, who was "noted particularly for his research on Dante's Divine Comedy and for its translation". He was the Sterling Professor of Ro
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Dante Alighieri painted by his contemporary Giotto
Giovanni Boccaccio
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Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometime
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…Timothy Dwight College. He is the first poet to have his words launched into outer space to orbit the Earth. He is recognized as an authority on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, and the Provençal troubadours, as well as modern Italian writers, including Alberto Moravia, Salvatore Quasimodo, Giovanni Verga, and…
Posthumous portrait by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
1845 statue of Boccaccio by Fantacchiotti in Uffizi Gallery
Boccaccio and others fleeing the plague; illumination of a French edition of the Decamerone (c. 1485)
Circes: illustration of one of the women featured in the 1374 biographies of 106 famous women, De Claris Mulieribus, by Boccaccio – from a German translation of 1541