The Life and Works of Giovanni Boccaccio (334 words, 1 pages)
Giovanni BoccaccioGiovanni BoccaccioBoccaccio was born in Paris, in 1313, the illegitimate son of a Florentine merchant and a French noblewoman. Reared in Florence, he was sent to study accounting in Naples around 1323. He abandoned accounting for canon law and gave that up for classical and scientific studies. He took ...
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