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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio
(1313 - 1375)

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Italian novelist, b. in Paris, 1313; d. in Certaldo, 21 December, 1375. His father, a merchant from Certaldo and a man of some prominence in Florence, had gone into business in Paris. Shortly afterwards the elder Boccaccio deserted Giannina, the mother of Giovanni, and brought the boy to Florence wh .. .. more >>

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Dimitris(Jimmy) Psachos (6/19/2007 12:26:00 PM)
I'm not prejudiced but really...Boccacio doesn't belong here! Yes, he's an innovator, one of the utmost revolutionists of the novel and italian literature, why, world literature! ! Yet, he's not a poet with the pure sense as Dante(though I must read the second volume of Decameron! I just adore it!)

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Giovanni Boccaccio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giovanni Boccaccio (c. 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Boccaccio

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giovanni Boccaccio
Biography and overview of the author's major works.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02607a.htm

Boccaccio
Boccaccio's Life and Works. Life & Works 1 (1313-1350) · Life & Works 2 (1350-1375) · Main: Boccaccio.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/index.shtml

Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375
A brief biographical sketch of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/boccaccio.html

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