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Giovanni Boccaccio (?1313-75). "Author of the Decameron, the third of the Three Crowns of Italian literature, the great master and model of classic Italian prose, and the greatest of modern story-tellers." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. III ,(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 438.)
Hermann Hesse, Boccaccio (Berlin und Leipzig: Schuster & Loeffler, [1904]). Frontispiece.
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