Giovanni Boccaccio

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Picture a young man in the heart of medieval Florence, the illegitimate son of a merchant, forced to study law and commerce, but with his head lost in the pages of chivalric romances. This was young Giovanni Boccaccio, born in 1313, who would become one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

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