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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 · 53,098 ratings · 3,596 reviews · 1,837 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 43,723 ratings — published 1349 — 60 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 by Giovanni Boccaccio, Peter Hainsworth (Translator) 3.25 avg rating — 4,040 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 3.80 avg rating — 976 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 — 940 ratings — published 1353 — 126 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
	Life of Dante by Giovanni Boccaccio, J.G. Nichols (Translator), A.N. Wilson (Foreword by) 3.87 avg rating — 393 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) 3.40 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1343 — 154 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 3.33 avg rating — 198 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 — 95 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)

3.80 avg rating — 1,003 ratings

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

2nd Quarter 2018 (April-June) Long Read Poll

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1849, 882 pages

62 votes, 15.7%

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847, 867 pages

61 votes, 15.5%

The Arabian Nights, 800, 1049 pages

42 votes, 10.7%

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley, 1976, 729 pages

35 votes, 8.9%

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1008, 1182 pages

29 votes, 7.4%

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1866, 679 pages

27 votes, 6.9%

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, 1977, 692 pages

23 votes, 5.8%

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, 1996, 1088 pages

22 votes, 5.6%

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 1901, 731 pages

20 votes, 5.1%

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353, 909 pages

20 votes, 5.1%

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1962, 640 pages

15 votes, 3.8%

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 1925, 859 pages

11 votes, 2.8%

The Histories by Herodotus, 400 BCE, 716 pages

9 votes, 2.3%

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 1865, 796 pages

6 votes, 1.5%

The Golden Bough by James George Frazer, 1890, 880 pages

5 votes, 1.3%

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman, 1982, 936 pages

4 votes, 1.0%

Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairbairn, 1966, 933 pages

3 votes, 0.8%

394 total votes

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