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Giovanni Boccaccio

Born

Certaldo, Italy

Died

November 19, 1375

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Literature

Influences

Dante Alighieri, Petrarch ...more

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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of just about all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot. ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 52,913 ratings · 3,569 reviews · 1,835 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 43,611 ratings — published 1349 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs Rosie and the Priest 3.25 avg rating — 3,990 ratings — published 1353 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El Decamerón, Vol. 1 3.79 avg rating — 975 ratings — published 1353 — 440 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decameron: Selected Tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, Bob Blaisdell (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 938 ratings — published 1353	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life of Dante by Giovanni Boccaccio, J.G. Nichols (Translator), A.N. Wilson (Foreword by) 3.87 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 1360 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love by Giovanni Boccaccio, G.H. McWilliam (Translator) 3.49 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 1353 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio, Mariangela Causa-Steindler (Translation), Thomas Mauch (Translation) 3.39 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 1343 — 150 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sokół 3.32 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 1895 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Famous Women 3.39 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1362 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Histórias Eróticas by Giovanni Boccaccio, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (Translator) 3.29 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1999 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron (2 books)
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Giovanni Boccaccio,

عبد الله عبد العاطي النجار (ترجمة),

عصام السيد (نرجمة)

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Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio (?)

“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio

tags: boccaccio, clarity, mind, power, read

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“To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. ”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

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“Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

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Polls

4th Qtr (Oct-Dec) 2021 Long Read Poll

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 909 pages, 1351

52 votes, 24.5%

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1182 pages, 1001

43 votes, 20.3%

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James, 741 pages, 1902

38 votes, 17.9%

Shōgun by James Clavell, 1152 pages, 1975

35 votes, 16.5%

He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope, 952 pages, 1869

17 votes, 8.0%

In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 780 pages, 1968

14 votes, 6.6%

Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor, 972 pages, 1944

13 votes, 6.1%

212 total votes

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