Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (c.1313-1375) was an Italian writer who was born in Paris. He wrote much poetry, inspired by his love for 'Flametta', including Filostrato, and Teseide, on which Chaucer based respectively his Troilus and Criseyde and Knight's Tale. His Decameron completed in 1358, is a collection of prose romances, told be 10 young people, staying in the country, during the plague which raged in Florence in 1348. Boccaccio became the friend of Petrarch, and met Dante, of whose life he wrote an account.
In his later years he lectured on Dante Alighieri 's Divine Comedy; he also founded the first professorship of Greek in Western Europe, at the University of Florence
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