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Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375

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Italian poet

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probably born in Tuscany

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Boccaccio abandoned commerce and the study of canon law

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At Naples he began to write stories in verse and prose, mingled in courtly society, and fell in love with  the noble lady whom he made famous under the name of Fiammetta.

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1350 Boccaccio lived at Florence and at Naples, producing prose tales, pastorals, and poems

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