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Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama … See more
Childhood and youth, 1313–1330
The details of Boccaccio's birth are uncertain. He was born in Florence or in a village near Certaldo where his family was from. He was the son of Florentine merchant See more• Bartlett, Kenneth R. (1992). "Florence in the Renaissance". The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: A Sourcebook. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath. ISBN 0-669-20900-7 See more
Alphabetical listing of selected works
• Amorosa visione (1342)
• Buccolicum carmen (1367–1369)
• Caccia di Diana (1334–1337) See more1. ^ Bartlett 1992, pp. 43–44.
2. ^ Blanc 1844, p. 166.
3. ^ Farrell, Thomas (2003). "Source or Hard Analogue? "Decameron X, 10" and the "Clerk's Tale"". The Chaucer Review. 37 (4): 346–364. doi:10.1353/cr.2003.0011 – via JSTOR. See more• On Famous Women, edited and translated by Virginia Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001 ISBN 0-674-00347-0 (Latin text and English translation)
• The Decameron, ISBN 0-451-52866-2 See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license - Some results have been removed