Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) was, along with Dante and Petrarch, one of the three crowns of Italian literature. Born the illegitimate son of a Florentine merchant, he spent his formative years in Naples, where the vibrant court culture and his own romantic entanglements provided the raw material for a lifetime of storytelling. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Decameron.