visits Naples, 219-22
his indignation with Montefalcone, 220
returns to Certaldo, 1371, 222
his Latin works, 223
his creative work, 224, 267
as Petrarch's disciple, 224-48
his Elogium on Petrarch, 228
appointed to expound the Divine Comedy, 249-53, 269, 279, 281
as a student of Dante, 253-7, 267
his Vita di Dante, 257-69
returns to Certaldo, 270, 281
his Comento sopra Dante, 270-8
his illness, 280
his letter on Petrarch's death, 282-8
his collection of relics, 289
his death, 290

Boccaccio as the greatest of story-tellers, 291-316
English works on, 355-9
and Dante, works on, 359
Chaucer and Shakespeare, works on, 360-6

Boccaccio, Jacopo di, 98, 99, 128, 130, 145, 270

Boghton-under-Blee, 296

Boll. di Soc. Dant. Ital., 252 note

Bologna, 123
Dante in, 263, 264
Visconti take possession of, 147, 148, 151, 152, 164

Bolsena, 156

Boniface VIII establishes the Neri in Florence, xiv-xvi
death of, xviii

Bordini, the, 104

Bostichi, Bice de', 98

Brescia, xx, xxi, 264

Brienne, Count of, 101

Brossano, Francesco da, 45 note, 153 note, 282

Bruna di Ciango, 289 note

Bruni, Francesco, 209 note, 210

Bruni, Leonardo, 258 note

Brutus, 88

Bucolics, 247

Buonaccorsi, the, 101

Buonamichi, Francesco di Lapo, 289 note

Buonconvento, xxi

Buonmattei, 183 note

Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 316


C

Cabannis, Roberto de, 113, 116

Cabannis, Sancia de, 113, 116

Cabassoles, Philip de, 110, 112

Calandrino, 306

Calchas, 71, 73

Caleone, 6, 86, 87

Calmeta, friendship with Boccaccio, 20, 48, 58, 323

Calò, Filippo Villani, 8 note

Camarlinghi, the, 162, 216

Campaldino, xiv

Canestrini in Arch. St. It., 165 note, 218 note

Canzoni, Dante's, 272

Cappelletti, Osserv. e notiz. sulle fonti del Dec., 304 note

Capua, 15, 50, 57

Cara, 69

Carbonara, 112 note

Carducci, Giuseppe, 9, 93 note
on the Ninfale, 93
on the Vita di Dante, 184 note

Carme, 254, 256, 263 note

Carthage, 63, 89

Casa di Boccaccio, 11, 325-34

Casentino, the, xx, xxi, 107, 257 note, 264

Casetti, Il Boccaccio a Napoli, 14 note, 31 note, 32
in Nuova Antologia, 323 note
on Fiammetta, 42

Cassandra, 74

Castalia, 229

Castel Capuano, 116

Castellamare, 114

Castel Nuovo, 116

Castello dell' Ovo, 117

Castor and Pollux, 81

Castracani, Castruccio, 100

Castracaro, 150 note

Catherine de Courteney, 44

Cato, 88

Cavaillon, Bishop of, 110

Cavalcanti, Maghinardo de', xiii, 279, 281 note

Cavicciulli, the, 104, 106

Cecco da Meleto, 123

Cerchi, the, 104

Certaldo, Boccaccio in, xi, 3, 7, 8, 10, 195 note, 212, 222, 270, 281, 284, 288
S. Jacopo, 289 note, 290

Chalcidius, 272 note

Charles of Anjou, King of Naples, xviii, 16
enters Florence, xvi
genealogical table of, 111 note

Charles IV, 163-8

Charles of Apulia, 88

Charles, Duke of Calabria, 18, 21, 44, 100-2, 109-10, 148

Charles, Duke of Durazzo, 39 note, 110-17

Charlemagne, 88

Charles Martel, death of, 16
son of Giovanna, 115-18

Charles of Valois, xv, xix

Chaucer, Geoffrey, and Boccaccio, English works on, 360-2
foreign works on, 362-4
debt to Boccaccio, 224, 257, 305, 311-13
in Italy, 313 note
Canterbury Tales, 84, 296, 313
Treatise on the Astrolabe, 322
Troilus and Criseyde, 73 note, 76 note, 78

Chellino, Boccaccio di. See Boccaccino

Chiose sopra Dante, 270 note

Churchyard, Thomas, Praise of Poets, 312

Ciampi, Monumenti, 150 note

Ciani, Gioacchino, 198, 203 note

Ciappelletto, Ser, 309

Cibele, 86

Ciccarelli, Lorenzo, 277 note

Cicero, 88, 154, 159, 190, 226, 234, 288

Cimbri, the, 241

Cini, Bettone, 103

Cino da Pistoja, 24, 25, 253

Cipolla, Fra, 202, 297 note, 306, 309

Cisti, 306

Città di Castello, 15 note

Claricio, Girolamo, 90

Claudian, 88

Claudius, 230

Clement IV, 262 note

Clement V, flies to Avignon, xviii
crowns Robert the Wise, 17, 31
supports Robert the Wise, 110
supports Andrew of Hungary, 112-18

Clement VI, 157
death of, 164

Cleopatra, 18, 88, 136, 241

Clerc, Discours, 68 note

Clonico, 69

Cobler of Caunterburie, 314

Cochin, H., Boccaccio, 24 note
Études Italiennes, 280 note
Un Amico del Petrarca, 192 note

Colonna, Cardinal, 17

Colonne, Guido delle, 77

Columbini, Giovanni, 198 note

Comento sopra Dante, 12, 127 note, 136, 201 note, 202 note, 225 note, 234 note, 268 note, 269 note, 270-8
children in, 215
summary of, 270-8

Comneno, Alessio, 26 note

Compendio, 257 note, 269. See Vita di Dante

Conrad, Duke of Teck, 163

Constance, Empress, 236

Constantinople, 191, 204

Convenevole da Prato, 110

Convito, 254 note, 267, 272

Coote, H. C., 313 note

Corazzini, Lettere di Boccaccio, 9 note, et passim
on the Egloghe, 120 note

Corbaccio, 19, 190, 197
attitude to women, 134, 138 note, 237
date of, 170
influence of Dante in, 254
story of, 182
title of, 181

Corbignano, sale of, 11, 325-34

Coriolanus, 241

Cornelia, 88

Corneto, 217

Corradino, 88

Costanza, 241

Cotier, Gabriel, 95

Council of Trent, 310 note

Creighton, History of the Papacy, 152 note

Cremona, xx

Creon, 80

Crescimbeni, 94 note

Crescini, Contributo agli Studi sul Boccaccio, 4 note, et passim
Due Studi, 22 note
Idalagos, 6 note
lucia non Lucia, 22 note
on Boccaccino, 99
on Boccaccio's birth, 9 and note
on Calmeta, 20
on Fiammetta, 35, 36, 38, 323 note
on the Rime, 137, 143
on the Teseide, 83
on the two bears, 14 note
on the Visione, 89 note

Criseyde, 71-7

Criti, 210

Crowe and Cavalcaselle, ed. Hutton, 18 note

Cugnoni, Prof., 133

Cuma, 67

Curia, the, 309

Cyprus, 26 note, 185


D

D' Ancona e Bocci, Manuale della Lett. Ital., 321 note

Dafni, 210

Danäe, 239

D' Annunzio, Gabriele, 297

Dante Alighieri, xi, xiii, 16, 88, 151, 175, 179, 222, 224, 289 note
daughter of. See Beatrice di Dante
birth of, xiii
one of the Bianchi, xiv
in exile, xvi, xx, 253, 257 note
his dream of the empire, xvii
letters of, xx
death in Ravenna, 120
his Beatrice, 135, 136, 142-4, 186, 198, 263, 265, 307
influence on Boccaccio, 25, 77
life of, by Boccaccio, 120. See Vita di Dante
Boccaccio's sonnet to, 142, 254
Boccaccio expounds, 249-53
and Boccaccio, English works on, 359
De Monarchia. See infra
Divine Comedy. See intra
Rime, 267

Dante, Jacopo di, 268

Daphne, 210, 215 note, 229

"Dares Phrygius," 77

Dati, Goro di Stazio, Storia di Firenze, 104 note

Davidsohn, Forschungen zur Geschichte von Florenz, 4 note, 21 note
Il Padre di Boccaccio, 4 note, 21 note

De Blasiis, Cino da Pistoia, 24 note, 25 note
De Casibus, 21 note
La Dimora di Boccaccio in Napoli, 14 note, et passim
Le Case de' Angioni, 44 note

Decameron, 31, 33 note, 63, 105 note, 127 note, 190, 224, 240
as a source of inspiration, 311
attitude to women in, 174-9
Black Death in, 125, 128, 292
Church's treatment of, 310
clergy in, 202, 306, 308
compared with the Divine Comedy, xi, 309
contrasted with Corbaccio, 172
date of, 162, 170-2, 181, 183 note
Dogana, 19 note
Fiammetta, 174
foreshadowed in Filocolo, 69, 70
friars in, 309
human comedy, the, xi
humanism of, 305
impersonal character of, xi, 291
known in England, 311-16
La Valle delle Donne, 302
MSS. of, 171 note, 311
palaces of, 298-302
Petrarch on, 311
plan of, 296
Proem, 172 note, 173, 174, 292-6
prose style of, 310
protagonists of, 297, 305, 306
sources of, 304
title of, 292 note
Tuscan setting of, 11
synopsis of and works on, 367-93
index to, 394-406

De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, 5 note, 6 note, 21 note, 101 note, 108, 124, 201 note, 223, 234 note, 243-4, 275, 313 note

De Claris Mulieribus, 224, 275
story of, 236-43
attitude to women in, 240-2

De Genealogiis Deorum, 119, 194, 201, 220, 224, 230, 235, 245-7, 272 notes, 275, 321
Andalò di Negro, 26 note
autobiographical nature of, 12 note, 24, 45 note
material of, 245-7
on commercial pursuits, 13, 19, 21 note, 22 note

Deiphobus, 75

Dejob, A propos du Décaméron, 305 note

Della Torre, La Giovinezza di Boccaccio, 8 note, et passim
St. della Accademia, 53 note
on Boccaccio's journey to Naples, 15, 57, 59 note, 60 note, 319
on Calmeta, 20
on Fiammetta, 31, 36, 38, 42

De Monarchia, 267
claims of the Empire, xvii

De Montibus, 4 note, 223, 228 note, 235, 245, 248, 275

De Nohlac, Les Scholies, 194 note, 203 note
Pétrarque et son jardin, 192 note