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Topic: Giovanni Boccaccio

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:T S Eliot,  Robert Frost
Favorite artist(s):Sandro Botticelli,  Michelangelo,  Leonardo da Vinci
Favorite author(s):Dante Alighieri,  Machiavelli,  Niccolo
Favorite TV show(s):The Sopranos
Favorite book(s):The Bible
Favorite great thinker(s):Galileo Galilei
Favorite royal(s):Mary of the Scots,  Anne Boleyn,  Catherine Medicis
Favorite movie(s):Baraka
Favorite destination(s):Italy
Favorite philosopher(s):Nicolo Machiavelli
Favorite quote(s):"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
 
 
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

Visit to Certaldo, The Castle, Giovanni Boccaccio's birth House, Artesia Ceramic Decoration Workshop.
Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic

In so doing, we recall the words of the Florentine Giovanni Boccaccio when he reluctantly accepted the order of a powerful king to produce an account of the old Roman Pantheon: SI MINUS BENE DIXERO SALTEM AD MELIUS DICENDUM PRUDENTIOREM ALTERUM EXCITABO.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio.
To Giovanni BOCCACCIO in the 14th century, the concept applied to contemporary Italian efforts to imitate the poetic style of the ancient Romans.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Italian Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 - 1375 CE ) begins writing the Decameron, a collection of stories about love, sex, adventure and trickery told by seven ladies and three men on a journey into the country to escape the Black Death.
The film, which has garnered awards at numerous film festivals during 1999, draws its inspiration from both Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron and The Arabian Nights.
During this time, in addition to Bibles and prayer books, we get traditional material in print: romances such as Giovanni Boccaccio's De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning famous women.
 
 
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