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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, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Soseki Natsume, Charlotte Brontë, Walt Whitman, C. S. Lewis, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, Jack London, Elizabeth Von Arnim, 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, 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, Mary Shelley, Emile Zola, Willa Cather, Bram Stoker, Rabindranath Tagore, Kahlil Gibran, Laozi, Thomas Hardy, Homer, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Voltaire, Sun Tzu, Weedon Grossmith, Marcel Proust, Kakuzou Okakura, Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Baudelaire, Frederick Douglass, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Cao Xueqin, Laurence Sterne, Kenneth Grahame, John Keats, Dante, Nikolai Gogol, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, E. M. Forster, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stendhal, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, T. S. Eliot, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Honoré de Balzac, George MacDonald, Sir Walter Scott, Emily Brontë, D. H. Lawrence, J. M. Barrie, Giovanni Boccaccio, James Fenimore Cooper, Wilkie Collins, Gaston Leroux, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry David Thoreau, 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