Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian author and poet of the late medieval period, best known for The Decameron. His works profoundly influenced European literature and helped establish vernacular Italian as a serious literary language.
Works
- The DecameronFramed collection of tales told by storytellers fleeing the plague
- FilocoloEarly romance following a knight's quest for his beloved lady
- FilostratoNarrative poem of a man's unrequited love and emotional suffering
- TeseidaEpic poem about knights in love based on classical mythology
- De mulieribus clarisBiographical catalogue celebrating the deeds of famous historical women
- DecameronFramed collection of tales told by storytellers fleeing the plague
- Ninfale FiesolanoPoem about love and the nymph Fiésole in mythological setting