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Bucolicum carmen

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  • Giovanni Boccaccio
    In Giovanni Boccaccio: Petrarch and Boccaccio’s mature years

    His Bucolicum carmen (1351–66), a series of allegorical eclogues (short pastoral poems) on contemporary events, follows classical models on lines already indicated by Dante and Petrarch. His other Latin works include De claris mulieribus (1360–74; Concerning Famous Women), a collection of biographies of famous women; and…

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