General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . , Petrarchwisely dissuaded him. About this time heseenis to have assumed the clerical habit, andwith it a new plan of conduct. He again vi-sited the court of Naples in 1362, or 1363, inconsequence of an invitation from Nicholas Ac-ciaioli, the grand seneschal; but his receptionwas not such as to induce him to make a lonj;stay. Thence he went to Venice, where he pased three months with Petrarch. He was aguiiisent by hi
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . , Petrarchwisely dissuaded him. About this time heseenis to have assumed the clerical habit, andwith it a new plan of conduct. He again vi-sited the court of Naples in 1362, or 1363, inconsequence of an invitation from Nicholas Ac-ciaioli, the grand seneschal; but his receptionwas not such as to induce him to make a lonj;stay. Thence he went to Venice, where he pased three months with Petrarch. He was aguiiisent by his country as embassador at Avignon topope Urban V. whom in 1367 he also visitedin the same character at Rome. This was thelast of his public missions. He was afterwardsappointed to the new institution of a public lec-tureship on the Cow/;W/fl of Dante, at Flori .>Lf,and he began his expositions of that autlv •> iuOctober, 1373. In December, 1375, he diedat his retirement of Certaldo, a year after thedeath of his friend Petrarch. Boccacio was a very voluminous writer, bothin his own language and in Latin, in prose andin verse. In Latin prose he wrote fifteen B O C ( 199 ) B O C •* De Genealogia Deorum, which, at the timewhen it was composed, contained all the erudi-tion that could be collected relative to the hea-then mythology, and was esteemed a most ad-mirable work, though the advancement of cri-tical and literary knowledge in later times hasdeprived it of all its value. He has been ac-cused of quoting in this performance suppositi-tious authors, who never existed; but it isprobable that he was himself deceived in theseinstances. He also wrote nine books, Decasibus virorum & fseminarum, illustrium, anda book, De claris mulieribus, which wereformerly admired, and translated into severallanguages. A kind of catalogue or dictionaryof the Latin names of mountains, woods, lakes,rivers, seas, &c. further testifies his industryin classical literature. In Latin vers
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