Boccaccio

American  

[boh-kah-chee-oh, -choh, buh-, bawk-kaht-chaw] / boʊˈkɑ tʃiˌoʊ, -tʃoʊ, bə-, bɔkˈkɑt tʃɔ /

noun

1. Giovanni 1313–75, Italian writer: author of the Decameron.

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Boccaccio British  

/ bokˈkattʃo /

noun

1. Giovanni (dʒoˈvani). 1313–75, Italian poet and writer, noted particularly for his Decameron (1353), a collection of 100 short stories. His other works include Filostrato (?1338) and Teseida (1341)

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Example Sentences

In Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14 century work “The Decameron,” 10 people who have fled Florence during the Black Death spin stories to repel the darkness of despair.

From Los Angeles Times

“Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope” bites off a lot, no question, with subjects as varied as Boccaccio, Frederick Douglass and Bertrand Russell.

From New York Times

Its terrors were chronicled by Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian writer and poet who lived through the plague when it struck Florence.

From New York Times

In Boccaccio's book, noblemen and noblewomen who fled Florence during the Black Death hole up in a villa outside the city and pass the time by telling stories.

From Salon

Plagues have been a plot staple throughout literary history, from the “Iliad” and the Bible to classics like Boccaccio’s “Decameron” and Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year.”

From New York Times