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Giovanni Boccaccio

Born

Certaldo, Italy

Died

October 10, 1375

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Benoît de Sainte-Maure ...more

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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 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.

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Average rating: 3.84 · 44,949 ratings · 2,570 reviews · 1,055 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 38,414 ratings — published 1349 — 687 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 3.32 avg rating — 2,204 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
	The Decameron: Selected Tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, Bob Blaisdell (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 787 ratings — published 1353 — 118 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 3.77 avg rating — 528 ratings — published 1353 — 144 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) 3.84 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1360 — 90 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, Volume II 3.91 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1353 — 213 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 (Great Loves, #3) by Giovanni Boccaccio, G.H. McWilliam (Translator) 3.48 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 1353 — 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
	The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio, Mariangela Causa-Steindler (Translation), Thomas Mauch (Translation) 3.39 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1343 — 171 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 3.36 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1362 — 59 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 3.23 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1895 — 10 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

Carrascalejo de La Jara (3 books)
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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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“While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio

tags: sweetuesday

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Polls

4th Qtr (Oct-Dec) 2021 Long Read Poll

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 909 pages, 1351

52 votes, 24.3%

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1182 pages, 1001

43 votes, 20.1%

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James, 741 pages, 1902

38 votes, 17.8%

Shōgun by James Clavell, 1152 pages, 1975

35 votes, 16.4%

He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope, 952 pages, 1869

18 votes, 8.4%

In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 780 pages, 1968

15 votes, 7.0%

Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor, 972 pages, 1944

13 votes, 6.1%

214 total votes

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