Fourteen-year-old Giovanni Boccaccio, whose father holds important positions in the Bardi bank, is apprenticed in 1327 to the banking trade in Naples.

Young Boccaccio, however, prefers the aristocratic and intellectual circles of the Neapolitan court of King Robert of Anjou, where men of learning and taste gather, and begins composing his first literary works.

The earliest of these is the pastoral allegory “La caccia di Diana” (Diana's Hunt,” and “Filostrato,” a heroic version of the Troilus and Cressida myth.