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Giovanni Boccaccio

1313 - 1375

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Giovanni Boccaccio (UK: , US: , Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Boccaccio has received more than 1,711,642 page views. His biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Giovanni Boccaccio is the 27th most popular writer (down from 24th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Italy (down from 26th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Writer.

Giovanni Boccaccio is most famous for his collection of short stories, The Decameron.

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  • 100

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  • 15.87

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  • 3.24

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Giovanni Boccaccio ranks 27 out of 5,755. Before him are Agatha Christie, Anton Chekhov, Albert Camus, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Petrarch, and Anne Frank. After him are Rumi, Honoré de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Horace, and Alexandre Dumas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1313, Giovanni Boccaccio ranks 1. After him are Cola di Rienzo, Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Maria of Portugal, Queen of Castile, Ibn al-Khatib, Emperor Kōgon, Isabella of Valois, Duchess of Bourbon, and Constantine III, King of Armenia. Among people deceased in 1375, Giovanni Boccaccio ranks 1. After him are Valdemar IV of Denmark, Philip, Duke of Orléans, Liu Bowen, Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria, Ibn al-Shatir, Eleanor of Sicily, John Henry, Margrave of Moravia, Shuttarna II, James IV of Majorca, and Margaret Drummond, Queen of Scotland.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Boccaccio ranks 29 out of 4,668. Before him are Nero (37), Ovid (-43), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Marcus Aurelius (121), Petrarch (1304), and Caligula (12). After him are Alessandro Volta (1745), Florence Nightingale (1820), Niccolò Paganini (1782), Parmenides (-501), Horace (-65), and Giacomo Puccini (1858).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giovanni Boccaccio ranks 5. Before him are Dante Alighieri (1265), Virgil (-70), Ovid (-43), and Petrarch (1304). After him are Horace (-65), Umberto Eco (1932), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Cato the Elder (-243), Plautus (-254), and Carlo Collodi (1826).

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