Boccaccio

[ boh-kah-chee-oh, -choh, buh-; Italian bawk-kaht-chaw ]

/ boʊˈkɑ tʃiˌoʊ, -tʃoʊ, bə-; Italian bɔkˈkɑt tʃɔ /

noun

Gio·van·ni

[jee-uh-vah-nee; Italian jaw-vahn-nee] /ˌdʒi əˈvɑ ni; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni/,1313–75, Italian writer: author of the Decameron.

Example sentences from the Web for boccaccio

But Virgil and Cicero would certainly be on the list; perhaps Livy and Tacitus; Boccaccio and Dante.

How I Write: Stephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Winner of ‘The Swerve’ |Noah Charney |September 19, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
The disease which Boccaccio thus describes has been thought to be a form of diabetes.

Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study |Edward Hutton
Boccaccio did not act consciously and with fixed-100- purpose to these ends.

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature |John Addington Symonds
As we have already seen, Boccaccio had been an eager student of Dante in the first years of his literary life.

Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study |Edward Hutton

In a cottage near Milan the poet received a visit from Boccaccio, who was at that time inclined to renounce the world.

The Great Book-Collectors |Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton
Even this incomplete copy, though sent off in 1365 by Boccaccio, was a long time in reaching him.

Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study |Edward Hutton

British Dictionary definitions for boccaccio

Boccaccio

/ (Italian bokˈkattʃo) /

noun

Giovanni (dʒoˈvani). 1313–75, Italian poet and writer, noted particularly for his Decameron (1353), a collection of 100 short stories. His other works include Filostrato (?1338) and Teseida (1341)

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