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1313 - 1375Life of the Italian poet, writer, and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio.
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c. 1328Giovanni Boccaccio is sent by his father to study in Naples.
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1335 - 1341Giovanni Boccaccio writes his first poetry work, including Diana's Hunt, The Lovestruck, and Teseida.
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c. 1340Giovanni Boccaccio returns to Florence.
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1347 - 1352The Black Death plague sweeps across Europe.
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1350The Italian authors and scholars Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio first meet. They become lifelong friends.
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c. 1353Giovanni Boccaccio completes his masterpiece, the Decameron.
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1355Giovanni Boccaccio writes a biography of Dante Alighieri. He revises the work in 1364 CE.
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c. 1360Giovanni Boccaccio works on his Ancestry of the Pagan Gods (Genealogia Deorum Gentilium).
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1373Giovanni Boccaccio gives a series of public lectures in Florence on the work of Dante Alighieri.
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21 Dec 1375Giovanni Boccaccio dies in Certaldo, Tuscany. nn
