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Giovanni Boccaccio

Born

Certaldo, Italy

Died

November 19, 1375

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Literature

Influences

Dante Alighieri, Petrarch ...more

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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of just about all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot. ...more

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Giovanni Boccaccio’s books

Average rating: 3.81 · 54,562 ratings · 3,806 reviews · 1,838 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 44,591 ratings — published 1349 — 133 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs Rosie and the Priest by Giovanni Boccaccio, Peter Hainsworth (Translator) 3.24 avg rating — 4,421 ratings — published 1353 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El Decamerón, Vol. 1 3.79 avg rating — 1,014 ratings — published 1353 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decameron: Selected Tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, Bob Blaisdell (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 964 ratings — published 1353 — 126 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life of Dante by Giovanni Boccaccio, J.G. Nichols (Translator), A.N. Wilson (Foreword by) 3.88 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 1360 — 142 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love by Giovanni Boccaccio, G.H. McWilliam (Translator) 3.48 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 1353 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio, Mariangela Causa-Steindler (Translation), Thomas Mauch (Translation) 3.41 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 1343 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sokół 3.35 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 1895 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Famous Women 3.39 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1362 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Histórias Eróticas by Giovanni Boccaccio, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (Translator) 3.31 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1999 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron (2 books)
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Giovanni Boccaccio,

عبد الله عبد العاطي النجار (ترجمة),

عصام السيد (نرجمة)

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Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio (?)

“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio

tags: boccaccio, clarity, mind, power, read

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“To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. ”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

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“Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

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Polls

1st Quarter 2018 Long Read Poll

Ulysses by James Joyce, 1922, 810 pages

69 votes, 20.0%

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1849, 974 pages

67 votes, 19.4%

The Arabian Nights, 800, 1049 pages

46 votes, 13.3%

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847, 867 pages

41 votes, 11.9%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 1946, 661 pages

24 votes, 7.0%

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 1985, 945 pages

19 votes, 5.5%

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, 1913, 654 pages

19 votes, 5.5%

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 1925, 859 pages

14 votes, 4.1%

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353, 909 pages

14 votes, 4.1%

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas, 1845, 788 pages

10 votes, 2.9%

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, 1767, 784 pages

6 votes, 1.7%

From Here to Eternity by James Jones, 1951, 816 pages

6 votes, 1.7%

The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, 1921, 752 pages

6 votes, 1.7%

Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens, 1948, 614 pages

2 votes, 0.6%

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady, 1748, 1534 pages

2 votes, 0.6%

345 total votes

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