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Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist Giovanni Boccaccio died #OTD in 1375. His most notable works are The Decameron, a collection of short stories which in the following centuries was a determining element for the Italian literary tradition. Boccaccio, along with Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarch, is part of the so-called "Three Crowns" of Italian literature.
Books by Giovanni Boccaccio at PG:
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