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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese".

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“I, unhappy that I am, these eight years have I loved thee more than my life, and thou, as I have felt, art all afire and all consumed with love of a strange woman, wicked and perverse man that thou art!”

— Giovanni Boccaccio《The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio》

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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio is a literary work by Giovanni Boccaccio. Its themes and subject matter include Allegories and Frame stories. Together, these subjects provide the book with its main literary, historical, social, or intellectual context.

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