Author:Giovanni Boccaccio

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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375)

See biography, media, quotes. One of the three major Italian medieval authors, together with Dante and Petrarch. His most important work is the Decameron, a collection of one hundred short stories. Chaucer considered him as a model for his Canterbury Tales.

[edit] Works

• Decameron
• Corbaccio
• Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta
• Filocolo
• Life of Dante
• Ninfale Fiesolano