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Boccaccio

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Boccaccio
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 6 to 8
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	6.79

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	challenging words:		humanist, vocation, banker, renowned, jester, literature, plots, writing, epidemic, well-known, contribution, government, novels, works, born, reading
	content words:		Italian Renaissance, Black Death, Canterbury Tales, His Decameron

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Boccaccio By Sharon Fabian

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¹     Boccaccio was born in 1313 and grew up in Florence, Italy. He apprenticed as a banker at his father's bank but decided not to become a banker. He went to law school but decided not to become a lawyer, either. He preferred to spend his time in school studying literature, and that turned out to be time well spent. Boccaccio finally decided that his true vocation was writing, and he became one of the most renowned writers of the Italian Renaissance.
 
²     One of his most important influences was that other great humanist of the Renaissance, Petrarch. Reading Petrarch's poetry was an inspiration to Boccaccio.
 
³     Boccaccio was also involved in the government of his city. His favorite mission must have been when he was sent to greet Petrarch on his visit to Florence and also to entertain Petrarch as a guest at his house during the visit.
 
⁴     Boccaccio wrote many types of literature. He wrote reference works. He wrote biographies, including one about the poet Dante. He also wrote poems and novels.
 
⁵     His most well-known work is a collection of short stories, or novellas. This collection is called the Decameron, which means "ten days." It is a group of stories set in a frame. The frame of the Decameron was a well-known event of Boccaccio's time - the Black Death. The Black Death was an epidemic that killed millions of people in Europe during the 1300s.

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