Boccaccio

American  

[boh-kah-chee-oh, -choh, buh-, bawk-kaht-chaw] / boʊˈkɑ tʃiˌoʊ, -tʃoʊ, bə-, bɔkˈkɑt tʃɔ /

noun

1. Giovanni 1313–75, Italian writer: author of the Decameron.

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Boccaccio British  

/ bokˈkattʃo /

noun

1. 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)

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Example Sentences

Some in Florence shut themselves inside their homes and lived in isolation, according to a detailed account from 14th-century writer and poet Giovanni Boccaccio.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2020

Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2020

In the shadow of Dante and Boccaccio, Italian literature has no domineering elder of the very long novel: no Cervantes, no Richardson or Fielding, no Dumas or Hugo.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2019

Boccaccio might have had medieval audiences rolling in the aisles, but Mr. Baena squanders an R rating and a roster of household names while managing to raise little more than a smile.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2017

I wonder why Boccaccio chose to put an impossible circumstance into this story.

From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.