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Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian author and poet (1313–1375)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 16 June 1313, 1313, 1313
- Died
- 21 December 1375, 1375
- Place of death
- Certaldo
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Giovanni
- Family name
- Boccaccio
- Occupation
- short story writer, poet, diplomat, translator, biographer, mythographer, writer
- Citizenship
- Republic of Florence
- Native language
- Italian
- attested in
- Mare Magnum. Etruria (vol. 95), Mare Magnum (vol. 82)
- cause of death
- edema
- contributed to creative work
- Q4317658
- depicted by
- Statue of Giovanni Boccaccio
- described by source
- The Catholic Encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Λεξικό Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας, Otto's encyclopedia
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- end of work period
- 1373
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum
- name
- messire Jean Boccace, Boccace
- name in native language
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- notable work
- The Decameron, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta, Buccolicum carmen, De casibus virorum illustrium, De mulieribus claris, De montibus, Genealogia deorum gentilium, Corbaccio, Il Filostrato, La caccia di Diana, Teseida, Amorosa visione
- place of burial
- Santi Jacopo e Filippo
- significant person
- Petrarch
- start of work period
- 1323
- student
- Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola
- student of
- Cino da Pistoia
- topic has template
- Template:Giovanni Boccaccio
- topic's main category
- Category:Giovanni Boccaccio
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