Giovanni boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

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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 where he put him to school until he was ten years old, when he took him into business. In 1327 Giovanni was sent to Naples to study law. But he gave himself up almost entirely to literature, and became intimately acquainted with some of the most prominent men and women of the court of Anjou. It is supposed that it was in 1334 that he saw for the first time Maria d'Acquino, a married woman and natural daughter of King Robert. She was the inspiration of his earlier works, and the heroine of whom he tells under the name of Fiammetta. In 1340 we find him b

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron
3.88 avg rating — 41,873 ratings — published 1349 — 1902 editions
Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Penguin Little Black Classics, #1)
3.26 avg rating — 3,299 ratings — published 1353 — 8 editions
El Decamerón, Vol. 1
3.80 avg rating — 960 ratings — published 1353 — 440 editions
The Decameron: Selected Tales
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3.77 avg rating — 886 ratings — published 1353 — 126 editions
Life of Dante
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3.87 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 1360 — 52 editions
The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love (Great Loves, #3)
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3.48 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1353 — 8 editions
The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta
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3.39 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1343 — 150 editions
Sokół
3.28 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1895 — 9 editions
Famous Women
3.38 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1362 — 55 editions
Il Filostrato
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Giovanni Boccaccio

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