Definition of Giovanni Boccaccio

1. Noun. Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375).

Exact synonyms: Boccaccio
Generic synonyms: Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Giovanni Boccaccio

Ginkgophytina
Ginkgopsida
Ginny
Ginsberg
Ginsbergian
Giordano-Giovannetti diet
Giordano Bruno
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio de Chirico
Giosue Carducci
Giottesque
Giotto
Giotto di Bondone
Giovannetti diet
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Boccaccio (current term)
Giovanni Cabato
Giovanni Cimabue
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
Giovanni da Verrazano
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Giovanni de Medici
Giovanni di Bernardone
Gipsy
Giraffa
Giraffa camelopardalis

Literary usage of Giovanni Boccaccio

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) BY WJ STILLMAN IT HAS been justly observed, and confirmed by all that we know of the early history of literature, ..."

2. Early Italian Poets: From Cuillo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1904)
"Giovanni Boccaccio \ SEVERAL of the little-known sonnets of Boccaccio have reference to Dante, but, being written in the generation which followed his, ..."

3. The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200 by Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Chiswick Press (1861)
"Giovanni Boccaccio. SEVERAL of the little-known sonnets of Boccaccio have reference to Dante, but, being written in the generation which followed his, ..."

4. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"[Giovanni Boccaccio, born in Paria, 1313, died at Certaldo, Val d'Eisa, 2Ы December, 1375. He was the fon of a merchant uf Florence, and in that city he was ..."

5. The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Frederick Von Schlegel by Friedrich von Schlegel (1849)
"OK THE POETICAL WORKS OF Giovanni Boccaccio. 1801. IN attentively perusing the Decameron, we not only admire the great versatility of the author's genius, ..."

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