Giovanni Boccaccio
person
3 mentions
2 recordings
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Aug
↑3 vs the 6 months before
Italian author of the Decameron, born 1313
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Peak in the week of 19 Aug — 2 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentJonty ClaypoleSecret Life of Books · Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde · 55:23 · 25 Aug
…It's really interesting where Chaucer differentiates from the source, his source, Boccaccio, because a lot of it is he's translating Boccaccio.…
Jonty ClaypoleSecret Life of Books · Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde · 22:39 · 25 Aug
…And it's Boccaccio who becomes absolutely central to Troilus and Crusade.…
Sean King O'GradySuspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse · Decameron Days (Part One) · 1:02 · 2 Jul
…The Decameron was written around 1350 AD by Giovanni Boccaccio, and it's about 10 people who form a quarantine bubble outside of Florence in order to escape the bubonic plague.…
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