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'Rustico and Alibech by Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio The exact inside information of his birth are uncertain. A number of sources declare that he was born in Paris, but others tag this as romanticism by the earliest biographers. In this case his birthplace was possibly in Tuscany, by chance in Certaldo, the town of his father. He was the son of a Florentine merchant and an unknown woman, and almost surely born illegitimate. Boccaccio grew up in Florence.His father was operative for the Compagnia dei Bardi and in the 1320s married Margherita dei Mardoli, of an illustrious family. It is believed Boccaccio was tutored by Giovanni Mazzuoli and accredited from him an early introduction to the works of Dante. In 1326 Boccaccio locomote to Naples with the family when his father was appointed to head the Neapolitan differentiate of his bank. Boccaccio was apprenticed to the bank, but it was a trade for which he had no affinity. He eventually per suaded his father to permit him study law of nature at the Studium in the city.For the side by side(p) six years Boccaccio studied canon law there. From there he pursued his interest in scientific and literary studies. His father introduced him to the Neapolitan noblesse and the French-influenced court of Robert the Wise in the 1330s. At this cadence he fell in love with a married daughter of King Robert of Naples (known as Robert the Wise) and she is immortalized as the character â€Å"Fiammetta” in many of Boccaccios prose romances, particularly Il Filocolo (1338).Boccaccio never married, but had lead children. Mario and Giulio were born in the 1330s. In the 1340s, Violente was born in Ravenna, where Boccaccio was a lymph gland of Ostasio I da Polenta from about 1345 through 1346. The Italian drop a liner Giovanni Boccaccio lived through the plague as it destroy the city of Florence in 1348. The experience inspired him to write The Decameron, a story of seven men and three women who escape the disease by fleeing to a villa outdoor(a) the city. In his introduction to the\r\n'