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Man of Glass: Boccaccio: A Biography

Alexander Lee: Man of Glass - Boccaccio: A Biography by Marco Santagata (Translated from Italian by Emlyn Eisenach)

He had already penned at least a dozen major works, including the Decameron, any one of which would have assured him a place alongside Dante and Petrarch in the firmament of Italian literature. His tales, even when set in another time and place, were embroidered with vignettes of his social world, and he could seldom resist the temptation to insert himself into the plot – either overtly, as the narrator, or discreetly, in the guise of characters. He was destined for banking but, realising he hated it, persuaded his father to let him abandon his apprenticeship and study canon law, presumably in preparation for a career in the Church.

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