is the black death, Decameron and Giovanni Boccaccio from the middle ages? if not, what period?
2006-11-25 12:51:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic.
2006-11-25 14:18:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Black Death and Boccaccio are both about 1350, the Middle Ages.
2006-11-25 20:56:44 · answer #2 · answered by sonyack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Middle Ages (in England at least) are usually taken as beginning c1000AD and ending with the defeat of Richard III by Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Remember, however, that expressions like 'The Middle Ages' are just convenient shorthand and were meaningless at the time. Just as people on 1 January 1000BC didn't wake up and say 'whoopee it's now the iron age', they didn't wake up on 23 August 1485 and say 'the middle ages ended yesterday'
2006-11-26 08:27:52 · answer #3 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋