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Giovanni Boccaccio

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Giovanni Boccaccio , 1313-75, Italian poet and storyteller, author of the Decameron. Born in Paris, the illegitimate son of a Tuscan merchant and a French woman, he was educated at Certaldo and Naples by his father, who wanted him to take up commerce and law. In Naples he met (1336) the woman (dubiously identified as Maria d'Aquino, illegitimate daughter of King Robert) whom he was to immortalize in prose and verse as Fiammetta. She is reputed to have introduced him at court and to have urged him to write (c.1340) his early Filocolo, a long vernacular prose romance. Other early works include... Read more
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–75), Italian writer and humanist. His chief works were The Decameron; Filocolo , a prose romance embodying the story...Fiammetta , a psychological romance in prose. He also wrote a number of encyclopaedic works in Latin which were widely read in England. Boccaccio is an ... Read more
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–75), Italian writer, poet, and humanist. He is most famous for the Decameron (1348–58), a collection of a hundred tales told by ten young people who have moved to the country to escape the Black Death. Read more

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