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Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian author and poet (1313–1375)

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  • The plague of Florence in 1348, as described in Boccaccio's Decameron. Etching by L. Sabatelli.

Images featuring Giovanni Boccaccio

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  • Poets: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Giovanni Boccaccio. Engraving.
  • Six Italian men of letters. Engraving after G. Vasari, 1543.

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14 works

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    [Opera] / Tradotta di latino in volgare. Da M. Niccolo Liburnio, dove ... si tratta diffusamente de' monti, selve, boschi, fonti, laghi, stagni, paludi, golfi, e mari dell'universo mondo.

    Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 | Date: 1598
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    The plague of Florence in 1348, as described in Boccaccio's Decameron. Etching by L. Sabatelli.

    Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. | Reference: 10124i
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    Prose antiche di Dante, Petrarcha, et Boccaccio et di molti altri nobili et virtvosi ingegni nouamente raccolte.

    | Date: 1547
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    Il decameron. Si come lo diedero alle stampe gli SSri Giunti l'anno 1527 / [Giovanni Boccaccio].

    Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 | Date: 1665
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    Decamerone / di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio.

    Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 | Date: 1825

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