# Giovanni Boccaccio

Based in [Certaldo, Тоскана, Италия](https://localbooks.app/places/it/tuscany/certaldo)

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.

## Books (1)

- [The Decameron](https://localbooks.app/books/the-decameron) (1353)

Canonical: https://localbooks.app/authors/giovanni-boccaccio
JSON: https://localbooks.app/api/v1/authors/giovanni-boccaccio