An Annotated Bibliography of Printed and Online Primary Sources for the Middle Ages

Boccaccio, Giovanni
lived c. 1313-1375

One of the “three crowns” of Italian literature (along with his contemporary Petrarch and his near contemporary Dante Alighieri), Boccaccio wrote prose and poetry in vernacular Italian. He is best known for his Decameron, which relates stories told by a group of aristocrats who have fled the plague in Florence. Known for his witty dialogue and inclusion of risque material, Boccaccio remained influential into the fifteenth century among Italian authors.

For more information, please see:

• Wikipedia

• A website run through Brown University’s department of Italian Studies devoted to Boccaccio

OMSB Records by Boccaccio, Giovanni:

• Wright, Herbert G., ed., Forty-Six Lives Translated from Boccaccio's De Claris Mulieribus (Early English Text Society Original Series 214, 1943 [Rpt. 1970]).
• Cassell, Anthony K ed., trans., The Corbaccio (Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, 1975).
• Nichols, J. G., Life of Dante (London: Hesperus Press Limited, 2002).
• Rigg, J. M., trans., The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society, 1921).
• McWilliam, G.H., trans., The Decameron (New York: Penguin Classics, 1972 [Rpt. 1995]).
• Griffin, Nathaniel Edward, trans.; Myrick, Arthur Beckwith, trans., The Filostrato of Giovanni Boccaccio (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1929).
• Blamires, Alcuin, ed; Pratt, Karen ed.; Marx, C.W. ed., Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).
• Branca, Vittore, ed.; Baca, Murtha, trans., Merchant Writers of the Italian Renaissance: From Boccaccio to Machiavelli (New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1999).
• Ross, James Bruce, ed.; McLaughlin, Mary Martin, ed., The Portable Renaissance Reader (New York: Viking Penguin, 1981).
• Horrox, Rosemary, trans., The Black Death (Manchester Medieval Sources Series, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994).
• Brogan, James C., trans., La Fiammetta (New York: National Alumni, 1907).
• Rossetti, William Michael, trans., Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde Compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato (London: N. Trubner & Co., 1873).
• , De mulieribus claris (Early Manuscripts at Oxford University Website. Oxford University., 2000).
• Cassell, Anthony K. and Victoria Kirkham, trans., Diana's Hunt/Caccia di Diana: Boccaccio's First Fiction (The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991).
• Wright, Herbert G., ed., Early English versions of the tales of Guiscardo and Ghismonda and Titus and Gisippus from the Decameron (Early English Text Society Original Series 205, 1937 [Rpt. 2002]).
• Gordon, R.K., ed., The Story of Troilus (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1964).