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BOCCACCIO 1313 - 1375 Italian Author |
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Giovanni Boccaccio was a poet and scholar who revived Hellenistic
learning in Florence and he may be considered one of the
early humanists.
Boccaccio spent most of his life in Florence where he wrote the Decameron, a work of earthy tales. He also wrote a book about the life of Petrarch, whom he met in 1350. With Petrarch he established the foundations for the Humanism of the Renaissance and in 1373 he began public readings of Dante's Divine Comedy. |
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www link : Biography From the Medieval Sourcebook: Decameron - Introduction |