Boccaccio, Giovanni
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...poet and storyteller, author of the Decameron. Born in Paris, the illegitimate son...53) his great secular classic, the Decameron, a collection of 100 witty and occasionally...seeking, and ludicrous. With the Decameron the courtly themes of medieval literature...