Giovanni Boccaccio

English: Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet.

Italiano: Giovanni Boccaccio (16 giugno 1313 – 21 dicembre 1375), scrittore e poeta italiano.

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  Portrait by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450

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  statue at the Uffizi, Florence

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  Illustration of one of the women featured the 1374 biographies of famous women, De Claris Mulieribus, by Giovanni Boccaccio - from a German translation of 1541