Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian author of the Decameron

1313–1375 Literary

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About Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet and humanist, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch. He was born in Certaldo, in Tuscany, and was sometimes called the Certaldese. His Decameron collects one hundred tales told by ten young people who have left Florence to escape the plague. Many scholars count him as the greatest European prose writer of his century.

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The Decameron: Or Ten Days' Entertainment

Narrated by Mary Ellin Kurtz

In 1348 the plague is raging in Florence. Seven young women and three young men leave the city for a country villa, where they spend ten days telling stories to pass the...

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