Boccaccio,
Giovanni 1313-75; It. author of the Decameron
See Boccaccio in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(bō-käˈchē-ōˌ, -chōˌ), Giovanni 1313-1375.
Italian poet and writer whose classic work, the Decameron (c. 1350), is a collection of 100 tales set against the melancholic background of the Black Death.
