Boccaccio Ticket

Do you love to travel? I love traveling! If given a chance, I would love to travel around the world and explore all the things possible. But I believe that there is an alternative way to travel even way back a hundred and thousand years ago. And that is through Literature available in our time.  So come and join me as we discover the magnificent wisdom behind World’s Literature.

 The Middle Ages encompass one of the most exciting periods in English History. The names of famous Medieval people scatter the History books. One of those is Giovanni Boccaccio. (http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/giovanni-boccaccio.htm)

Boccaccio is an Italian writer, born in year 1313 in Paris but moved to Florence Italy as a young child. His father was a merchant and wanted him to take up Commerce and Law. And because of Boccaccio’s respect for his father, he took up Business but later on, he abandoned it and pursued his literary career.

I just noticed that some of the famous writers were some kind of a unique person in deed because like Boccaccio, he still pursued what he really wants and disobey his father because what matters is what you love. And Boccaccio has the heart of writing. 

His famous work is entitled, “Decameron”. And he finished it in the middle of a plague occurred in Europe. This epidemic was known as the “Black- death” in history. We can imagine that many have died during that epidemic, there’s a full of chaos, no cure, many had lost their hopes, but on the contrary, there’s a man who looked at it far differently from the rest, and so he come up with a very interesting, wonderful  masterpiece who inspired many writers, the “Decameron”.

I would like to know more what is in the Middle Ages when a Boccaccio was born, that makes this age unique and great because they bore a famous writers despite of epidemics and chaos surrounds them.

Till the next post, we will continue our travel back in the Middle Ages.

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