Excerpt from Giovanni Boccaccio: As Man and Author Dante takes for his province the drama of the human soul in its widest scope Petrarch takes the heart of an individual man, himself; Boc caccio takes the complex stuff of daily life, the guz'cgm'a' agzmz' fiomz'nes of common experi ence. These are their several subjects. Out of them Dante creates the epic, Petrarch the lyric, Boccaccio the novel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.