Boccaccio, Giovanni
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Tuscan merchant and a French woman, he was educated at Certaldo...Naples he met (1336) the woman (dubiously identified as Maria...Amorosa visione, imitative of Dante. Boccaccio was recalled to...men, the second of famous women), the mythological treatise...read daily from his beloved Dante, and in 1373 in Florence he...