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Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio, detail of a fresco by Andrea del Castagno; in the Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia, Florence.
Giovanni Boccaccio was the son of a Tuscan merchant named Boccaccio di Chellino (known as Boccaccino) and a mother who was likely French.1