Last name: Boccaccio
Name/names: Giovanni
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Born: 1313 (Certaldo or Florence)
Died: 21 December 1375 (Certaldo, Italy)
Category: Literature.
Boccaccio Giovanni – ur. 1313 w Certaldo (Tuskan) or Paris, zm. 1375 w Certaldo; writer Wł.; friend f. Petrarki; Latin author. erudition work, and also a few novels in the Language. poem and prose, among which Fiammetta stands out (1343 44, wide. pol. 1923). The main work of Boccaccia remained Dekameron (1349 51, 1 wide. Ok. 1470), set 100 Christmas, which during 10 days (gr. here “ten”) tells the group 10 People; They took refuge from the plague (In the introduction, the famous description of the city affected by it) in the vicinity of Florence; The threads of the novels were derived from Boccaccio from both written sources, as well as oral messages; showing the life of his era in all his lush, He often described the playful erotic adventures, but showing the sensual light of the world combined with admiration for the fitness of the human mind, for Bystra and Independent Intelligence. Boccaccio became a classic of prose, naked, In the structure he gave, a pattern imitated for a long time in various literature.