Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet (born 1313)

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian author and poet (1313–1375)

Giovanni Boccaccio 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" and one of the most important figures in the…