Giovanni Boccaccio as Man and Author

This biography of the Renaissance Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, written by John Addington Symonds, is one of the most thorough and comprehensively researched studies ever made of this genius.In this volume, Symonds traces the literary and autobiographical work of Boccaccio from the Decameron to his final masterpiece, The Corbaccio. His richly detailed text, which includes a critical biography of Giovanni, is enhanced by more than a hundred illustrations in color and black-and-white. A landmark study in Renaissance literature, it is also a fascinating survey of life in fifteenth-century Florence.