Giovanni Boccaccio

About The Author

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.

Books by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron
By Giovanni Boccaccio
Foreword by Susanna Barsella
Beautiful collector's edition of the famous Decameron: one hundred fables and fairy tales with the universal wisdom of great literature...

With a new foreword. Written in the fourteenth century by Italian author, poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio, the Decameron contains sto...
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