Fiammetta

A Vision of Fiammetta by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1878

Fiammetta, Fiametta (Italian for little flame)— pseudonym of Giovanni Boccaccio's beloved and muse, her real name may have been Maria d’Aquino.

Boccaccio's works with her name

• The Filocolo
• Teseida
• Il Filostrato
• Ninfale d'Ameto
• Amorosa visione
• Fiammetta (novel)
• Ninfale fiesolano
• The Decameron (Novels № I, 5; II, 5; III, 6; IV, 1; V, 9; VI, 6; VII, 5; VIII, 6; IX, 5; X, 6)
• Sonnets (№ XLV, XCVII, CII, CXXVI)

See also

• Other famous Fiammetta was lover of Cesare Borgia and a famous courtesan.

Sources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fiammetta.

• Luciano Rebay. Introduction to Italian poetry
• Giovanni Boccaccio
• Giovanni Boccaccio, Nathaniel Edward Griffin, Arthur Beckwith Myrick. The Filostrato of Giovanni Boccaccio