Giovanni Boccaccio

Genealogia deorum gentilium by Giovanni Boccaccio was started around 1351, the year he met Francesco Petrarch in Florence, Italy. This is better known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, which is a collection of classical mythology in fifteen books (libri). After this fruitful meeting in 1351, Boccaccio and Petrarch were very close friends and stayed in communications for the rest of their lives. From this period in time Giovanni Boccaccio turned instead to Latin and devoted himself to humanist scholarship rather than to imaginative or poetic creation. Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poetry in the vernacular. ... From the c. ... Florence (Italian, Firenze) is a city in the center of Tuscany, in central Italy, on the Arno River, with a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. ... The word mythology (from the Greek μυολογία mythología, from μυολογείν mythologein to relate myths, from μύος mythos, meaning a narrative, and λόγος logos, meaning speech or argument) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and...

Ovid works inspired Boccaccio

His encyclopaedic De genealogia deorum gentilium was medieval in structure but humanist in spirit and probably begun in the very year with his meeting Petrarch. Boccaccio's on the genealogy of the gods of the gentiles is a scholarly interpretive compendium of classical myth.

The first edition was completed in 1360 and this would remain one of the key reference works on classical mythology for over 400 years. It was the first ever in a very long line of Renaissance mythographies. Boccaccio continuously corrected and revised his poem until his death in 1374. It is an encyclopedia of mythology chosen largely from Ovid. Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC – Tomis, now Constanţa AD 17), a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. ...

Gods of the Gentiles

Birth of Venus

Venus and Mars

Apollo and Auror

Birth of Venus This work is copyrighted. ... Birth of Venus This work is copyrighted. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1466x600, 161 KB) Venus and Mars by Sandro Botticelli, 1483. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1466x600, 161 KB) Venus and Mars by Sandro Botticelli, 1483. ...

Sol

Ether

Ceres

Jupiter

Juno

Vulcan

Mercury

Venus

Oceanus

Saturnus

Neptune

Pluto

Dardanus

Illyrius

Caeculus

Quirinus

Nester

Vesta

Fortuna

Diana

Apollo

Mars

Standards Of Learning SOL stands for The Standards Of Learning. ... Aether (upper air), in Greek mythology, was the personification of the upper sky, space and heaven. ... In Roman mythology, Ceres was the goddess of growing plants (particularly cereals) and of motherly love. ... Jupiter et Thétis - by Jean Ingres, 1811. ... IVNO REGINA (Queen Juno) on a coin celebrating Julia Soaemias. ... Vulcan, in Roman mythology, is the son of Jupiter and Juno, and husband of Maia and Venus. ... A sculpture of the Roman god Mercury by 17th-century Flemish artist Artus Quellinus. ... Marble Venus of the Capitoline Venus type, Roman (British Museum) Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love and beauty, the rough equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. ... In the Greek and Roman world-view, Oceanus (Greek , Okeanos), was the world-ocean, which they believed to be an enormous river encircling the world. ... Saturnus, Caravaggio, 16th c. ... Neptune is usually depicted with a trident, as seen here in this statue by Jean de Boulogne in Bologna, Italy. ... Pluto, lord of the underworld. ... In Greek mythology, Dardanus (burner up) was a son of Zeus by Electra, daughter of Atlas, and founder of the city of Dardania on Mount Ida in the Troad. ... Illyrius (Greek: Ιλλυριός) is a name known in different stories found in ancient Greek mythology. ... In Roman mythology, Caeculus was a son of Vulcan. ... In Roman mythology, Quirinus was an early god of the Roman state. ... In Greek mythology, Nestor of Gerênia (Greek: Νέστωρ) was the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos, and Chloris. ... Vesta was the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman mythology, often mistaken as analogous to Hestia in Greek mythology; however, she had a large, albeit mysterious role in Roman religion long before the influence of the Greeks, and was much more important to the Romans than... Fortuna governs the circle of the four stages of life, the Wheel of Fortune, in a manuscript of Carmina Burana In Roman mythology, Fortuna (equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) was the personification of luck, hopefully of good luck, but she could be represented veiled and blind, as modern depictions... The Diana of Versailles In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the hunt, in literature the equivalent of the Greek goddess Artemis, though in cult she was Italic in origin. ... Lycian Apollo, early Imperial Roman copy of a fourth century Greek original (Louvre Museum) In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (Ancient Greek , Apóllōn; or , Apellōn), the ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), was the archer-god of medicine and healing, light, truth, archery and also a... Mars was the Roman god of war, the son of Juno and either Jupiter or a magical flower. ...

Books on the Genealogies

Various genealogies of the mythological Gods are described in the fifteen books.
Genealogia deorum gentilium libri

• The First Book
• The Second Book
• The Third Book
• The Fourth Book
• The Fifith Book
• The Sixth Book
• The Seventh Book
• The Eighth Book
• The Ninth Book
• The Tenth Book
• The Eleventh Book
• The Twelith Book
• The Thirteenth Book
• The Fourteenth Book
• The Fifteenth Book ^[1]

References

1. ^ English version with introductory essay and commentary by Charles G. Osgood (Princeton Univ. Press 1930, reprinted in the Library of Liberal Arts, Bobbs-Merrill, 1956) for only the Fourteenth Book and Fifteenth Book of the complete series. All others are in Latin only at this point in time.

• Primary Sources: Humanism and Political Thought - Boccaccio on Poetry by Charles G. Osgood
• Encyclopedia Britannica: Humanism by Robert Grudin
• Greek Mythology resource
• Georges Dumézil, Archaic Roman Religion. ISBN 0-8018-5481-4.
• Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna. ISBN 0-942299-13-2.
• Musei Capitolini
• Samuel Ball Platner and Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, (London: Oxford University Press) 1929: "Aedes Iovis Optimi Maximi Capitolini"
• Michael Best, "Medieval tragedy"
• Ovid, Metamorphoses. In the Latin original text only at the Latin Library.
• Theoi Project, Guide to Greek Mythology biographies of characters from myth with quotes from original sources and images from classical art
• Library of Classical Mythology Texts translations of works of classical literature
• Timeless Myths: Classical Mythology provides information and tales from classical literature.

Georges Dumézil (March 4, 1898 - October 11, 1986) was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Indo-European religion and society. ... Georges Dumézil (March 4, 1898 - October 11, 1986) was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Indo-European religion and society. ...

See Also

• Petrarch and Boccaccio's mature years
• Dr. Fidel Fajardo-Acosta's World Literature
• Paris 1531 copy of Boccaccio's Genealogie
• JSTOR: Boccaccio: The Genealogies of Myth