Additional
Information: Sites about the Italian humanist and novelist (1313-1375), most famous for writing The Decameron (1353).
Boccaccio, Giovanni Sites:
Giovanni Boccaccio - The Geoffrey Chaucer Page Giovanni Boccaccio - The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Harvard University site commenting on the relationship of Boccaccio's and Chaucer's writings. (Boccaccio, Giovanni) http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/boccaccio/
The Decameron Web The Decameron Web: A hypermedia project dedicated to the study and teaching of the work. (Boccaccio, Giovanni) http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml
Catholic Encyclopedia: Giovanni Boccaccio Catholic Encyclopedia: Giovanni Boccaccio: Biography and overview of the author's major works, from the Encyclopedia of 1911. (Boccaccio, Giovanni) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02607a.htm
The Decameron The Decameron: E-text of a 17th century English translation at Boise State University. (Boccaccio, Giovanni) http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/decameron/decameron.html