Giovanni Boccaccio
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Historical figure.
Giovanni Boccaccio (16 june 1313 - 21 december 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. He was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- A pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, with name of Joseph Stangerson upon the fly-leaf, was found on the corpse of Enoch J. Drebber (STUD 576).
