Boccaccio Giovanni

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Boc·cac·cio

 (bō-kä′chē-ō′, -chō′), Giovanni 1313-1375.
Italian poet and writer whose classic work, the Decameron (c. 1350), is a collection of 100 tales set against the melancholic background of the Black Death.
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