Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian writer and poet
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Wikipedia
Born: June 16, 1313, Certaldo, Italy
Died: December 21, 1375 (age 62 years), Certaldo, Italy
Children: Violante Boccaccio, Giulio Boccaccio, and Mario Boccaccio
Parents: Boccaccino di Chellino
Siblings: Francesco Boccaccio
Genres: Epic poem; lyric poem; sonnet; pastoral; novella; short story; literary criticism; biography; correspondence
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Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. He was known par excellence as the ...
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Jan 25, 2014 · 1336-39. Boccaccio finishes the Filocolo, a long romance divided into five books: for the first time in Italian prose it recounts the adventures ...
Giovanni Boccaccio was the greatest writer of vernacular Italian prose of the Medieval period and was instrumental in creating works of reference that were ...