Directory of Boccaccio, Giovanni Resources

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Sites about the Italian humanist and novelist (1313-1375), most famous for writing The Decameron (1353).

Resources in This Category

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Giovanni Boccaccio

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02607a.htm
  Biography and overview of the author's major works, from the Encyclopedia of 1911.

• Giovanni Boccaccio - The Geoffrey Chaucer Page

  http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/boccaccio/
  Harvard University site commenting on the relationship of Boccaccio's and Chaucer's writings.

• The Decameron Web

  http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/
  A hypermedia project dedicated to the study and teaching of the work.

Related Categories

• Home > Arts > Literature > World Literature > Italian
• Home > Arts > Movies > Titles > D > Decameron, The

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• Italian
• German

 

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