Boccaccio, Giovanni

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Basic data

  1. June 16, 1313 in Certaldo
  2. December 21, 1375 in Certaldo
  3. Dichter

Iconography

Portrait by Raffaello Morghen, c. 1822 (Source: Wikimedia)
16th-century portrait of Boccaccio (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450 (Source: Wikimedia)
1845 statue of Boccaccio by Fantacchiotti in Uffizi Gallery (Source: Wikimedia)
Boccaccio and others fleeing the plague; illumination of a French edition of the Decamerone (c. 1485) (Source: Wikimedia)
Circes: illustration of one of the women featured in the 1374 biographies of 106 famous women, De Claris Mulieribus, by Boccaccio – from a German translation of 1541 (Source: Wikimedia)
Genealogia deorum gentilium, 1532 (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis des Iohannes Boccativs, Bry, Theodor de (zugeschrieben) - 1597 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Ioannes Boccativs, Bry, Theodor de (zugeschrieben) - 1597 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Iohannes Boccatius, unbekannter Künstler - 1688 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Ioannes Boccativs, Bry, Theodor de (zugeschrieben) - 1597 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Giovanni Boccaccio, unbekannter Künstler - 1601/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Jean Bocace, Boulonois, Esme de - 1682 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Giovanni Boccaccio, William Hopwood - 1806/1853 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Giovanni Boccaccio, Johann Friedrich Bolt - 1819 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Giovanni Boccaccio, Johann Friedrich Bolt - 1819 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Ioannes Boccativs, Bry, Theodor de (zugeschrieben) - 1597 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

Biographical information from the WeGA

(Data migrated from Giacomo Meyerbeer. Briefwechsel und Tagebücher, Bd. 1 (1960); further information see there)

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