
Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Known Credits
32
Gender
Male
Birthday
1313-06-16
Day of Death
1375-12-21 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
Certaldo, Republic of Florence
Also Known As
Boccace
Jean Boccace
il Certaldese
Giovanni Boccaccio
Biography
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including "The Decameron" and "On Famous Women". He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in Tuscan vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue which differed from that of his contemporaries, medieval writers who usually followed formulaic models for character and plot.