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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Noun1.Giovanni BoccaccioGiovanni Boccaccio - Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375)


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Dante's first biographer, Giovanni Boccaccio, coined the words to explain how Dante's son was mystically led after the death of his father to discover the last missing cantos of the Paradiso walled up in Dante's study.
Christensen, who is currently working in Italy on a film version of the 14th-century literary classic ``The Decameron'' by Giovanni Boccaccio that also stars Mischa Barton and Tim Roth, did commercials as a kid.
It was such a frightful thing," observed Giovanni Boccaccio (joh-VAHN-nee boh-KAH-chee-oh), an Italian writer, "that when it got into a house.
 
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