Giovanni Boccaccio born near Florence
April 1313
The illegitimate son of a Florentine merchant arrived in this world, later claimed fatherhood was Parisian. Raised in Naples among Angevin courtiers and the city's thriving literary culture, he would write the Decameron, a hundred tales told by young Florentines fleeing the plague to a country villa. Prose fiction, racy and humane, found its European charter in Boccaccio.
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Also in 1313 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.