biography
pronunciation:
[faw(r)teenee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1500–62)
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| biography:
| Short-story writer, born in Siena, Tuscany, C Italy. He wrote a collection of short stories in the Siena dialect. The 82 short stories (1555–61) are written in a bawdy style that recalls Boccaccio's work and are in two parts, Le giornate delle novelle de' novizi and Le piacevoli et amorose notti de' novizi. |
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