ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -These years in Naples, moreover, were the years of Boccaccio’s love for Fiammetta, whose person dominates all his literary activity up to the Decameron, in which there also appears a Fiammetta whose character somewhat resembles that of the Fiammetta of his earlier works.

Detailed explanation-2: -The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city.

Detailed explanation-3: -Boccaccio spent his childhood in Florence, in the House of San Pier Maggiore–with a few trips to the countryside, to Certaldo. Boccaccino marries Margherita de’ Mardoli, noblewoman who gave him another son, Francesco, Giovanni’s half-brother, born in 1320.

Detailed explanation-4: -Boccaccio moved to Florence (Italy) in 1340. It was in Florence, birthplace of the Renaissance, that he met Petrarch in 1350 and began to study the Greek and Roman classics. It was also in Florence that he wrote his Decameron, one of the most noted and readable books in all literature.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Decameron comprises a group of stories united by a frame story. As the frame narrative opens, 10 young people (seven women and three men) flee plague-stricken Florence to a delightful villa in nearby Fiesole.