Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was one of the most important figures in the European literary scene of the fourteenth century. Some regard him as the greatest European prose writer of his time.
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