Library / The 200 / Giovanni Boccaccio
No. 80 of 200 · Great Authors
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Major worksDecameron, Filocolo, Teseida, Genealogia Deorum Gentilium
The Italian writer whose Decameron, a collection of a hundred tales told by young Florentines fleeing the Black Death, brought wit, earthiness, and humanity to medieval storytelling. A friend of Petrarch and admirer of Dante, he helped shape Italian prose and influenced generations of writers, Chaucer and Shakespeare among them.
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