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- adjective Of or pertaining to Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375),
Italian author and poet, or to his works.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lafontaine drop any of his artless probity, when he dipped his pen into the Boccaccian inkpot?
French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard
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I seem indeed, for my own part, to discern a post-Boccaccian artificiality of phrase.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866
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Cheated death and kill'd time with Boccaccian stories.
Lucile Owen Meredith 1861
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In the form in which we now possess it, we are rather obliged to regard it as a rifacimento of some authentic history, compiled during the course of the fifteenth century in a prose which bears traces of the post-Boccaccian style of composition.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866
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