Short answers, pulled from the story.
Giovanni Boccaccio was born on the 16th of June 1313 in either Florence or a village near Certaldo. His family moved to Naples in 1326 when his father worked for the Compagnia dei Bardi bank.
Boccaccio wrote Il Filostrato, Teseida, and La caccia di Diana while living in Naples during the 1330s. He began work on The Decameron around 1349 after the Black Death outbreak and completed most of the hundred tales by 1352.
Francesco Petrarch entered Florence in October 1350 and Boccaccio was delegated to host him at his home. They became lifelong friends with Boccaccio calling Petrarch his teacher and magister while discussing classical texts in Padua during 1351.
Giovanni Boccaccio died on the 21st of December 1375 in Certaldo where he is buried. His final years involved severe health issues including obesity and dropsy described today as congestive heart failure.
Boccaccio began De mulieribus claris in 1360 completing it by 1374 with biographies of one hundred six famous women throughout history. He also wrote a dictionary of geographical allusions titled De montibus silvis fontibus lacubus fluminibus stagnis seu paludibus et de nominibus maris liber.