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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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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 <i>On Famous...


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