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

Renaissance author Giovanni Boccaccio named Giotto, who died in 1337, "the best painter in the world".

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

“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 • Mar. 12, 2023

I first heard the work of powerhouse flutist/composer Loggins-Hull, 39, as part of the Library of Congress’s 2020 pandemic-padding Boccaccio Project.

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2022

Shortly before the London lockdown, at an eerily quiet branch of Waterstones, I managed to get my hands on The Decameron, by Boccaccio, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2020

Everywhere we find the plots of Terence or of Plautus interwoven with a Novella in the style of Boccaccio.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo