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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.

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The Greatest Classics Ever Written
The Greatest Classics Ever Written
George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Soseki Natsume, Charlotte Brontë, Walt Whitman, C. S. Lewis, Honoré de Balzac, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, Jack London, Henry James, Marcus Aurelius, Jules Verne, G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, Daniel Defoe, Gustave Flaubert, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Herman Hesse, Lewis Carroll, Edith Wharton, J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph Conrad, Henrik Ibsen, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, W. B. Yeats, Kate Chopin, John Milton, Confucius, Stendhal, Mary Shelley, Emile Zola, Wilkie Collins, Willa Cather, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Rabindranath Tagore, Henry David Thoreau, Kahlil Gibran, Laozi, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Homer, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Voltaire, Elizabeth von Arnim, Sun Tzu, Weedon Grossmith, William Makepeace Thackeray, Marcel Proust, Kakuzou Okakura, Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, Frederick Douglass, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Cao Xueqin, Laurence Sterne, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kenneth Grahame, John Keats, Dante, Nikolai Gogol, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, E. M. Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Emily Brontë, Giovanni Boccaccio, James Fenimore Cooper, Gaston Leroux, Ann Ward Radcliffe, George Bernard Shaw, Benito Pérez Galdós, Kalidasa, Lewis Wallace, Lucius Apuleius, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Princess Der Ling, Válmíki, Inazo Nitobé, Ivan Sergejevič Turgenev, P. B. Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoevsky