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Showing posts with label Boccaccio. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Boccaccio. Show all posts

21 December 2020

Giovanni Boccaccio – writer and scholar

Renaissance humanist who changed literature Boccaccio's Decameron influenced Chaucer and De Cervantes One of the most important literary...

7 February 2017

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Preacher Savonarola's war on Renaissance 'excesses' The statue of Girolamo Savonarola in Piazza Savonarola in Florence T...

14 September 2016

Dante Alighieri – poet

Famous son of Florence remains in exile Sandro Botticelli's portrait of Dante, painted in 1495 Dante Alighieri, an important poet...

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