How does Giovanni Boccaccios work differ from the medieval arts?
Giovanni Boccaccio lived in the medieval period, and was a medieval man. The stories in his book The Decameron are actually typical medieval stories, some of them very rude, like the stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The 14th century was very much part of the medieval period, there is no use in trying to call Boccaccio a ‘Renaissance’ man, because he wasn’t one. The Renaissance is in any case overrated. Medieval people produced plenty of good literature, and plenty of non-religious literature too.
