How To Use Giovanni Boccaccio In A Sentence
- Giovanni Boccaccio, the great 14th century Italian humanist writer offers us a humorous insight into the corruption and decadence of the Church of his day.
- 'It is a surprise to many modern readers,' remarks Virginia Brown, 'to learn that Giovanni Boccaccio's most popular work, the collection of one hundred stories known as the Decameron, is by no means typical of his writings. Boccaccio and the Ladies
- More than thirty-two noblemen or squires contributed the stories, with some 14 or 15 taken from Giovanni Boccaccio, and as many more from Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini or other Italian writers, or French fabliaux, but about 70 of them appear to be original. The French Decameron « Jahsonic
