Who Was Alive

Were Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio alive at the same time?

Yes. Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio were alive at the same time for 7 or 8 years, from 1313 to 1321.

Giovanni Boccaccio was 7 or 8 when Dante Alighieri died.

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher

Born c. 1265 · died 14 September 1321

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian author and poet

Born 1313 · died 21 December 1375, aged 61 or 62

  1. Rumi
  2. Thomas Aquinas
  3. Marco Polo
  4. Dante Alighieri
  5. Ibn Battuta
  6. Petrarch
  7. Giovanni Boccaccio
  8. Ibn Khaldun
  9. Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.