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Name: Giovanni Boccaccio
Birth Date: 1313
Death Date: December 21, 1375
Place of Birth: Italy
Place of Death: Certaldo, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, poet

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Biography of Giovanni Boccaccio
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The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is best known for the Decameron. For his Latin works and his role in reviving Hellenistic learning in Florence, he may be considered one of the early humanists. The culture of Giovanni Boccaccio is...


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Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313-06-16 – 1375-12-21 ) was an Italian poet and story-writer who helped to initiate the humanist movement in Florence . His most famous work is The Decameron , a collection of 100 novelle or tales. Sourced The Decameron (c....


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Giovanni Boccaccio Summary
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1313-1375 Italian writer, best known for the Decameron(1353), who discussed geology in his Filocolo (c. 1340). In the latter text, he wrote on the origin of fossils and maintained that the sea had once covered the Earth. The willingness of Boccaccio,...
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Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous...


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Philological Quarterly
Male piety and sexuality in Boccaccio's Decameron.(Giovanni Boccaccio)
06/22/2003: 8,991 words, approx. 30 pages
This essay examines the tension between male piety and male sexual performance in selected novelle in Giovanni Boccaccio's fourteenth-century collection of prose narratives, the Decameron. Recent studies in medieval masculinities have sensitized the modern reader to the problems of practicing and performing male...
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The Modern Language Review
A quotation from the 'Culex' in Boccaccio's 'De Casibus'.(Giovanni Boccaccio)
04/01/2002: 7,780 words, approx. 26 pages
This article examines Giovanni Boccaccio's 'De Casibus Virorum Illustrium' and its discussion of Priam's fall from fortune in the two Homeric epics, focusing on its management of moral balance. The author suggests that Boccaccio did not have direct access to Greek literature when he...
 


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