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Boccaccio
[ boh-kah-chee-oh, -choh, buh-; Italian bawk-kaht-chaw ]
noun
- Gio·van·ni [jee-, uh, -, vah, -nee, jaw-, vahn, -nee], 1313–75, Italian writer: author of the Decameron.
Boccaccio
/ bokˈkattʃo /
noun
- 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
In Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14 century work “The Decameron,” 10 people who have fled Florence during the Black Death spin stories to repel the darkness of despair.
“Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope” bites off a lot, no question, with subjects as varied as Boccaccio, Frederick Douglass and Bertrand Russell.
Its terrors were chronicled by Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian writer and poet who lived through the plague when it struck Florence.
This January, I entered the Cli Fi genre myself, with the publication of my novel "Though The Earth Gives Way," a retelling of one of the oldest novels, Boccaccio's "The Decameron."
During the trial it emerged Hughes met him at an Amsterdam hotel, then the Boccaccio sex club and alerted others to where he was.
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