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Definition of Boccaccio
1. Noun. Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boccaccio
Literary usage of Boccaccio
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"In view of these facts, it is not surprising that Boccaccio has drawn upon the
Hippolytus for one of his Italian works. In the first chapter of the ..."
2. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1889)
"PETRARCH AND Boccaccio. THE higher influence of Italy upon our literature in the
days of Chaucer, established by the genius of Dante, was The three ' JJ ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"Boccaccio is the first Italian of the Renaissance who is known to have made any
progress in the study of Greek. He was impelled to it by the advice of ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"GIOVANNI Boccaccio (1313-1375) BY WJ STILLMAN HAS been justly observed, and
confirmed by all that we know of the early history of literature, that the first ..."
5. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1900)
"Boccaccio likewise has been claimed as a prophet of the Renaissance, as one of
the first of the moderns and the like; nor would it skill to deny that there ..."
6. Early Italian Poets: From Cuillo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1904)
"GIOVANNI Boccaccio \ SEVERAL of the little-known sonnets of Boccaccio have
reference to Dante, but, being written in the generation which followed his, ..."
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