Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (UK: /bəˈkætʃioʊ/, US: /boʊˈkɑːtʃ(i)oʊ, bə-/, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet.[1] He wrote several famous works, such as On Famous Women and the Decameron. Boccaccio was the first poet, who used ottava rima in longer poems.[2] Thus he started long tradition of employing this form in epic poems. Some of Geoffrey Chaucer's works were based on Boccaccio's poems.[1]
Giovanni Boccaccio Media
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16th-century portrait of Boccaccio
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Portrait by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
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1845 statue of Boccaccio by Fantacchiotti in Uffizi Gallery
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Boccaccio and others fleeing the plague; illumination of a French edition of the Decamerone (c. 1485)
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Circes: illustration of one of the women featured in the 1374 biographies of 106 famous women, De Claris Mulieribus, by Boccaccio – from a German translation of 1541
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Genealogia deorum gentilium, 1532