CULTURE: LITERATURE, BOCCACCIO BELONGED TO A SECRET TEMPLAR FRATERNITY

CULTURE: LITERATURE, BOCCACCIO BELONGED TO A SECRET TEMPLAR FRATERNITY

Florence, March 23 - (Adnkronos) - Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) belonged to a secret templar fraternity. The writer of the ‘‘Decameron’’, one of the fathers of the Italian language together with Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, would have been a member of the Girolamini, a Florence fraternity that would have transmitted, behind the façade of a new monastic order, the secret knowledge of the Knights Templars of the Order of the Temple, after in 1312 it was suppressed, with the accusation of heresy, by Pope Clemente V. It is indeed to the Girolamini, that Boccaccio left, as per his will, a large part of his inheritance. This is what has emerged from the historical study carried out by Renzo Manetti for “Edizioni Polistampa” in the book ‘’Le Madonne del Parto. Icone templari’’ (“The Madonnas of the Birth. Templar Icons”).