Francois de Belleforest translated the works of Boccaccio into French and he was French .
Francois de Belleforest wrote on cosmography , morals , literature , and history , and he translated the works of Matteo Bandello , Antonio de Guevara , Lodovico Guicciardini , Polydore Vergil , Saint Cyprian , Sebastian Münster , Achilles Tatius , Cicero , Einstein , and Demosthenes into French .
François de Belleforest