patron · scholar

Giovanni Boccaccio

1313–1375

Author of the Decameron and host of the project: he lodged Pilatus, procured the Greek, and pressed the work on, with Petrarch cheering from Milan.

Crossings

c. 1360–1362 Iliad , Greek Latin · patron · Florence attested
c. 1360–1362 Odyssey , Greek Latin · patron · Florence attested

Sources

N. G. Wilson (1992). From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance.