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Boccaccio

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Boccaccio
Giovanni . 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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It is said that Chaucer borrowed the form of his famous tales from a book called The Decameron, written by an Italian poet named Boccaccio.
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From this time, and especially after his other visit to Italy, five years later, he made much direct use of the works of Petrarch and Boccaccio and to a less degree of those of their greater predecessor, Dante, whose severe spirit was too unlike Chaucer's for his thorough appreciation.
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Would he take a Boccaccio, or a "Golden Ass," or a "Tom Jones," in exchange?
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