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**Giovanni Boccaccio**


Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

Giovanni Boccaccio is an author and poet who wrote the Decameron during the middle ages. In 1313 he was born in Tuscany but the date is not known. Giovanni's most famous piece of writing is the Decameron. The Decameron is a set of 100 stories told by 10 young people escaping from the plague in Florence. These books were written in the years after 1350.

While growing up Giovanni had a really hard life. In 1345 his dad went bankrupt and his stepmother died in 1348 because of the Black Plague. A year after his stepmother died his father died. After both his parents died he had to raise his half brother Jacopo. While he was raising his brother he also was working on collecting materials for a encyclopedia he was planning to write. Two years after his father died he wrote his masterpiece the Decameron.

Boccaccio had many pieces of work but his first work was, La caccia di Diana.That translates to Diana's Chase. Another poem he wrote was Filostrato which was used for a source for works by William Shakespeare and Chaucer. Another one of his famous works was The Theseid of the Marriage of Emilia. This was an epic poem written in 12 books. Those are some of the great pieces of his work. That is what Giovanni Boccaccio's life was like. Works Cited
 * Allegrini, Francesco, and Giuliano Traballesi. “Giovanni Boccaccio.jpg.” Creative Commons. Wikimedia Commons, 21 May 2006. Web. 6 Apr. 2010. .
 * “Boccaccio,Giovanni.” The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students. Ed. William Chester Jordan. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1998. 93-95. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 12 Mar. 2010.
 * “Giovanni Boccaccio.” Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2nd ed. N.p.: Gale Research, 1998. N. pag. Biography Resource Center. Web. 12 Mar. 2010.

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