Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) grew up in Florence and Naples and spent his last years in Certaldo in Tuscany. A friend of Petrarch and an early champion of Dante, he wrote the Decameron in the years after the Black Death.
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) grew up in Florence and Naples and spent his last years in Certaldo in Tuscany. A friend of Petrarch and an early champion of Dante, he wrote the Decameron in the years after the Black Death.