Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet.Giovanni Boccaccio, Encyclopaedia Britannica. He wrote several famous works, such as On Famous Women and the Decameron. Boccaccio was the first poet, who used ottava rima in longer poems.Ottava rima, Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Thus he started long tradition of employing this form in epic poems. 
Some of Geoffrey Chaucer's works were based on Boccaccio's poems.
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 Giovanni Boccaccio at The History Guide

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