ABSTRACT
Some of the greatest medieval poets have achieved their fame because they endeavored to project new forms of human communities and human bonds across all traditional, cultural, and religious divides by means of communication and tolerant attitudes. Giovanni Boccaccio's first-rate education and his great learning, his considerable political influence and experience as a diplomat and administrator, and about his significant contributions to fourteenth-century Italian literature and philosophy. Together with Francesco Petrarca, in the Anglophone world known to us simply as Petrarch, Boccaccio laid the foundation for what one might call today the Italian Renaissance. In particular, the Decameron is deeply determined by the panorama of human life where we encounter representatives of all social estates and even ages, including members of the Jewish and Muslim communities. Even though Boccaccio drew from a vast amount of ancient and medieval sources, his Decameron still represents a genuine, innovative, maybe also authentic anthology characterized by a sophisticated thematic structure.
