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| With his collection of stories Il Decamerone (The Decameron), Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio created the novella form. This portrait of Boccaccio is one of a series of frescoes of illustrious men and women created by Renaissance painter Andrea del Castagno about 1450. The work now hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. | ||||||
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| Italian Literature; Boccaccio, Giovanni; Castagno, Andrea del | ||||||
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