Boc·cac·cio (b -kä ch - , -ch), Giovanni 1313-1375. Italian poet and writer whose classic work, the Decameron (c. 1350), is a collection of 100 tales set against the melancholic background of the Black Death. |
Boccaccio (Italian) [bokˈkattʃo]
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(Biographies / Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) M, Italian, WRITING: poet, WRITING: writer) Giovanni (dʒoˈvani). 1313-75, Italian poet and writer, noted particularly for his Decameron(1353), a collection of 100 short stories. His other works include Filostrato(?1338) and
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| Noun | 1. |  Boccaccio - Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375) |
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