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1313
Boccaccio is born (June or July) in Certaldo or in Florence to an unknown woman and Boccaccino di Chellino, a wealthy merchant who officially and without hesitation recognizes him.
1319-20
Boccaccino marries Margherita de' Mardoli, noblewoman. Birth of Boccaccio's step-brother, Francesco.
1327
Boccaccio travels to Naples with his father, agent of the Bardi Bank.
1330
Possibly attends lessons of Cino da Pistoia, jurist-poet and friend of Dante and Petrarch, and takes up the study of canon law.
1332
Boccaccino moves to Paris. Giovanni, with greater freedom, pursues his humanistic interests in literature as is attested by his first essays in Latin (the Elegia di Costanza and the Allegoria mitologica, both certainly composed before 1334) and his first vernacular poetry.
1333-34
Boccaccio's first exposure to the poetry of Petrarch.
1334-37
Composition of La caccia di Diana.
1336-39
Boccaccio finishes the Filocolo. During this time, he ends his period of study.
1339
Giovanni writes the following Latin epistles: The Crepor celsitudinis, dedicated to Carlo, duke of Durazzo; the Mavortis milex, dedicated to Petrarch; the Nereus amphitribus and the Sacre famis, to unidentified friends.
1339-40
Composition of the Teseida.
1340
The Filostrato is completed (other scholars fix the date as circa 1335) between fall and winter.
1340-41
Boccaccio returns to Florence.
1341-42
Composition of the Comedia Ninfe (also known as the Commedia delle ninfe fiorentine and later with the uncertain title Ninfale d'Ameto) dedicated to Niccolò di Bartolo Del Buono. First draft of De vita et moribus domini Francisci Petracchi.
1342-43
First version of the Amorosa visione.
1343-44
Composition of the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta.
1344-45
Composition of the Ninfale fiesolano.
1347-48
Boccaccio travels to Forlì and resides at the court of Francesco Ordelaffi where he exchanges sonnets and carmina with the grammarian Checco di Meletto Rossi. It is during this period that Boccaccio first learns news of Dante's last years. Composition of the first eclogues which will later be collected in Buccolicum carmen.
1348
Florence suffers the initial effects of the Black Death which takes the lives of his father, step-mother and numerous friends.
1349-51
Composition of the Decameron...
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Life & Works 1 (1313-1350)
