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

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...