Pétrarque sur Homère, 191 note, 206 note

De Sade, 158

Desjardins, Négotiations Diplomatiques, 5 note

De Vulgari Eloquentia, 267

Diana, 86, 93

"Dictys Cretensis," 77

Dido, 57, 240

Diomede, 74, 75

Dioneo, 86, 295, 297, 302

Dionisi, 257 note

Divine Comedy, xi, 87, 90, 183 note, 226, 291
compared with the Decameron, 309
expounded by Boccaccio, 136, 249-53, 257, 266, 269. See Comento sopra Dante
Petrarch on, 227 note
Inferno, 254 note, 267, 269, 270, 273, 312, 324 note
Paradiso, 13 note, 104 note, 143 note, 253 note, 268, 271, 319 note
Purgatorio, 253 note, 258 note, 271

Dobelli, Il culto del Boccaccio per Dante, 26 note, 46 note, 253 note

Doccia, La, 304

Donati, Amerigo, 106

Donati, Corso, xv, xvi, 104, 106

Donati, Gemma, 184

Donati, Manno, 104

Donato de' Martoli, Gian, 7, 214

Doni, forged letter by, 24 note

Dryden, John, 311, 315

Duff Gordon, Lina, Home Life in Italy, 50 note

Duguesclin, Bertrand du, 217

Duraforte, Astorgio di, 123, 148


E

Edward III of England, 57 note

Egloghe, 19 note, 167, 235
evidence of the, 120-2, 124
Boccaccio's children in, 214 note

Egon, 164 note

Eletta, Petrarch's granddaughter, 88, 214-16

Elisa, 174, 294, 297

Elogium di Petrarca, 228, 231 note

Elsa, the, 290

Elyot, Sir Thomas, Boke of the Governors, 315 note

Emilia, 79-82, 85, 86, 174, 294

Esmondson, Godfrey, 245 note

Eucomos, 6

Euganean Hills, 227 note, 285

Euripides, 204

Eusebius, De Temporibus, 195

Eve, 224, 236, 243


F

Faenza, 150 note

Faggiuola, Uguccione della, 264, 267 note

Faraglia, Barbato di Sulmona, 21 note, 48 note

Fauno, 120-2

Felice, King of Spain, 64, 65

Feramonte, 69

Ferrara, 84, 164

Ferrara, Marquis of, 218

Ferretus Vicentinus, 120 note

Fiammetta, bastard daughter of Robert the Wise, Boccaccio's love for, 6, 9 note, et passim
prevision of, 16 note, 23, 30, 320
Boccaccio's meeting with, 19 note, 27-30, 33 note, 321-4
descriptions of, 28, 29, 46, 47
birth of, 30-2
in the care of nuns, 32, 42
marriage of, 33
her voluptuous nature, 33, 34
accepts Boccaccio's suit, 35-40, 48-53
betrays Boccaccio, 54, 180, 242
death of, 127-30, 279
Boccaccio's poems to, 137
in the Ameto, 85
in the Amorosa Visione, 87-9
in the Decameron, 294

Fiammetta, the, 10, 31 note, 32 note, 47 note, 224
Boccaccino in, 14 note
criticism of, 92
date of, 62, 74 note, 90, 96
Florence, described in, 96 note, 108
meeting of Boccaccio and F., 28 note, 29 note
Naples, described in, 18, 44, 45
on marriage, 34 note
Panfilo, in, 59 note
publication of, 93
sources of, 93
story of, 51-5, 91, 98
strategy of love, 49 note, 50

Fiesole, 11, 12, 84, 94, 299, 304, 309

Filippa la Catanese, 108 note, 113, 114, 116, 244, 306

Filippo, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 211

Filocolo, 51 note, 52 note, 55, 56, 138 note, 179
Abrotonia, 22
autobiographical nature of, 6, 7, 9 note, 10, 12, 13, 23, 67, 78, 319
Calmeta, 20
criticism of, 68
Dante, 25 note
date of, 62
Fiammetta, 28-33 notes, 37 note, 38 note, 43 note, 66, 322
Florio, 54 note, 63-9
germ of the Decameron, xii
influence of Dante in, 253
Naples, 19
narrative of, 63-8
on the Ars Amandi, 25
origin of name, 66 note
publication of, 70
Questioni d' Amore, 66, 69, 70
source of, 68
two bears, 10 note, 14, 319 note
written at Fiammetta's bidding, 42, 43, 63

Filomena, 174, 294, 296

Filostrato, 174, 295, 297

Filostrato, The, 70-8, 313
criticism of, 76, 77
date of, 47, 62, 70 note, 78
dedication of, 70, 78
Fiammetta, 28 note, 29 note
influence of Dante in, 253, 26 note
narrative of, 71-7
publication of, 78
secret vice, 34 note
song by Cino, 25 note
sources of, 77

Fiorentino, Anonimo, 277

Floire et Blanceflor, 68 note

Florence, allied with King Robert against Henry VII, xix-xxi, 17
allied with Siena and Perugia, 15 note
appeals to the Pope, 152, 163
appeals to Ludwig of Brandenburg, 163; and Charles IV, 163
appoints Boccaccio to expound Dante, 249-53, 267, 269
at Hawkwood's mercy, 208
Bishop of, xv
Boccaccino in, 4, 10
Boccaccio in, 25 note, 59, 60 note, 96-107, 150
Boccaccio's birth claimed for, 8, 9
Casa di Boccaccio, 57 note
employs Boccaccio as ambassador, 146-52, 157, 165, 209-12, 218
Henry VII's attack on, xxi, 17
Leon Pilatus in, 193
makes terms with the Visconti, 164, 165
Mercato Vecchio, 105
Neri established in, xiv-xvi
offers Petrarch a chair in the university, 157-60
Or San Michele, 120 note, 146, 148, 151
Petrarch in, 153-7, 225
Piazza di S. Croce, 102
Piazza della Signoria, 102
plague in, 125, 147, 293
political condition of, 1341-5, 96, 100-7; 1352-9, 165-9
prosperity of, xiii
Rettori, 103
Robert the Wise in, 17, 31
S. Ambrogio, 62, 99, 107
S. Felicità, 97, 99, 107
S. Maria del Fiore, 106
S. Maria Novella, xvi, 294
S. Stefano ad portam ferram, 252 note
S. Stefano della Badia, 252, 269
Signori, 102, 103
threatened by Milan, 147-8, 151-3, 162
trades with France, 5
university of, 157, 193

Florio, story of, 25, 42, 63-9

Foligno, 123

Forest of Fancy, 314

Forlì, 122 note, 127, 149, 150 note, 164 note, 171

Foscolo, Disc. Storico, sul testo del D., 172 note, 184 note, 257 note, 310 note
on the Vita di Dante, 184 note

Fracassetti, Lettere di Petrarca, 119 note, 123 note, 203 note

France, papacy under influence of, xviii

Franceschino da Brossano, 45 note, 153 note, 282

Francesco da Buti, 277

Fra Roberto, 112

Fratticelli, The, 278

Frederic II, 236
death of, xiii

Frederic III of Sicily, 221, 267 note

Frescobaldi, Bardo, 100, 103, 104


G

Galen, 88

Galeone, 66, 67, 69

Galeone, Gianello, 307

Galletti, Philippi Villani, Liber, 8 note

Gamba, Serie dei Testi di Lingua, 251 note, 257 note

Gambatesa, Carlo di, 113

Gannai, 7

Gardner, E. G., S. Catherine of Siena, 217 note

Gaspary, A., 108 note
Filocolo oder Filocopo, 63 note

Gebhart, Prologue du Décaméron, 296 note

Gelli, 277

Gemma, 259 note, 263, 264

Genoa, 17, 26 note, 44, 147, 148
Boccaccio in, 210, 211

Georgics, 247

Gerace, Bishop of, 191

Germany, feudal union with Italy, xix

Gerola, Alcuni documenti, 252 note

Gharamita, 6

Gherardi, Ruberto, La Villeggiatura di Maiano, 97 note, 335-47

Ghibellines, the, xiv, 11
support Henry VII, xix

Giardino, Pier, 268

Gigli, Il Disegno del Decamerone, 91 note
I sonetti Baiani del Boccaccio, 24 note

Ginguené, 9

Giotto, xiii, 289 note
in Naples, 18
tower of, 100

Giovanna, Queen of Naples, 218, 221
marriage of, 109-11
influence of, 112
suspected of her husband's murder, 115, 122, 124
second marriage of, 116-18
sells Prato, 148
and the Decameron, 171
in De Claris Mulieribus, 224, 236, 242

Giovanni of Florence, 109

Giovenale (Juvenal), 183 note

Giulia Tropazia, 63, 64, 88

Giulio di Boccaccio, 215 note

Glorizia, 64

Gonfaloniere, the, xiv

Gonzaga, 167

Goth, Bertrand de, xviii

Graf, Fu Superstizioso il Boccaccio, 198 note

Grandi, the, in power, xiv

Grantham, H., 70 note

Graziosa, 69

Greene, Robert, Perimedes the Blacksmith, 314 note

Gregory XI, 221

Grillo, Giovanni, 25 note

Griselda, 33 note, 297 note, 306, 307, 311

Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 308

Gualdrada, 236

Gubbio, 217 note

Guelfs, the, xiv, xxi, 152, 163
triumph at Benevento, xiii
Robert the Wise, 16

Guercin du Crest, Anton, 95

Guglielmo da Ravenna, 214

Guido da Polenta, 119 note, 150

Guinevere, 38 note, 42, 89


H

Hager, Programmata III, 289 note

Hamilton MS., 171 note

Hannibal, 88

Harrington, Sir John, Apology of Poetry, 312

Harvey, Gabriel, 312

Hauvette, H., Ballades du Décaméron, 297 note
Il MS. Berlinese, 171 note
Le Professeur de Grec de Boccace, 194 note
on the Corbaccio, 181 note
Recherches sur le Casibus, 224 note, 243 note
Une Confession de Boccace, 22 note, 108 note, 323 note

Havemann, Geschichte des ausgangs des Tempelherrenordens, 5 note

Haviland, John, 245 note

Hawkwood, Sir John, 208

Hecate, 52 note

Hecker, Boccaccio Funde, 12 note, 48 note, 108 note

Hector, 73, 233

Hecuba, 88

Helicon, 229, 285

Henry VII, 5, 31, 163, 264
crowned in Rome, xx, 17
death of, xiii, xxi
election of, xix
his attack on Florence, xxi
opposed by Robert the Wise, 17

Henry VIII of England, 243 note

Heroides, 25

Herrick, Robert,