Boccaccio

[ boh-kah-chee-oh, -choh, buh-; Italian bawk-kaht-chaw ]

noun

1. Gio·van·ni [jee-, uh, -, vah, -nee, jaw-, vahn, -nee], 1313–75, Italian writer: author of the Decameron.

Boccaccio

/ bokˈkattʃo /

noun

1. BoccaccioGiovanni13131375MItalianWRITING: poetWRITING: 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 Teseida (1341)

Example Sentences

But Virgil and Cicero would certainly be on the list; perhaps Livy and Tacitus; Boccaccio and Dante.

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In fact, eleven stanzas (183-259) correspond to Boccaccio's Teseide, Canto vii.

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See the whole extract from Boccaccio, given and translated in the Introduction; see p. 68, above.

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Boccaccio also here speaks of Venus, and refers to the apple which she won from Paris.

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Boccaccio here mentions the mother of Parthenopus, whose name Chaucer did not know.

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Boccaccio is giving a sort of summary of the result of the war described in the Thebaid.

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