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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Giovanni Boccaccio

16 July 1313 – 21 December 1375

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century.

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Books

30 books

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Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces

1991

Burton Beers, Anna Ahkmatova, Dante Alighieri, Yehuda Amichai, Margaret Atwood, Basho, Charles Baudelaire, Giovanni Boccaccio, Heinrich Böll, Jorge Luis Borges, Buson Yosa, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, Антон Павлович Чехов, Ch'ien T'ao, To Li Chien, Po Chu-i, Colette, Confucius, Julio Cortázar, Rubén Darío, Isak Dinesen, Jean de La Fontaine, Marie de France, Tu Fu, Federico García Lorca, Gabriel García Márquez, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, Günter Grass, Bessie Head, Heinrich Heine, Hitomaro Kakinomoto, Όμηρος, Lu Hsun, Victor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, Kobayashi, Hideo, Franz Kafka, Yoshida Kenko, Omar Khayyam, Komachi Ono, Pär Lagerkvist, Stanisław Lem, Doris Lessing, Primo Levi, Niccolò Machiavelli, Najib Mahfouz, Thomas Mann, Christopher Marlowe, Guy de Maupassant, Czesław Miłosz, John Milton, Gabriela Mistral, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Pablo Neruda, Ōgai Mōri, Ovid, Blaise Pascal, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Octavio Paz, Luigi Pirandello, Plato, Pliny, Li Po, Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Manuel Rojas, Pierre de Ronsard, William Shakespeare, Sei Shōnagon, Александр Солженицын, Sophocles, Wole Soyinka, Jonathan Swift, Rabindranath Tagore, Лев Толстой, Toshiyori Minamoto, Chrétien de Troyes, Tsurayuki Ki, Pak, Tu-jin, Lao-Tze, Paul Valéry, François Villon, Nguyen Thi Vinh, Virgil, Andrei Vosnesensky, Derek Walcott, Wang, Wei, William Wordsworth, 川端康成, Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Man against nature

1954

Maurice Herzog, Frank W. Aitken, Edward Hilton, Stewart Alsop, Ralph E. Lapp, Roald Amundsen, Anonymous, Ira J. Baden, Robert H. Parnham, William Beebe, Giovanni Boccaccio, Sidney Spencer Broomfield, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Donald R. G. Cameron, Samuel Chase, Jim Corbett, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Frédéric Dumas, George Armstrong Custer, Richard Henry Dana, William M. M. Davies, Edward Ellsberg, John Grant, Samuel S. Greeley, Arthur Ray Hawkins, Luke Wesley Price, Ernest Hemingway, Ἡρόδοτος, Thor Heyerdahl, Sir Edmund Hillary, Emerson Hough, Louis V. Housel, Hunter, J. A., Starr Jenkins, Jonathan Norton Leonard, Charles A. Lindbergh, C F. Meade, Francis Parkman, Robert E. Peary, Pliny the Younger, Albert Schweitzer, Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Haroun Tazieff, Peter J. Toner, A. F. Tschiffely, Tursa, James Ramsey Ullman, James J. Wait, Orville Wright, Charles Neider

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Dekameron

2009

Giovanni Boccaccio, Virgilio S. Almario