His most notable works are The Decameron, a collection of short stories which in the following centuries was a determining element for the Italian literary tradition, especially after Pietro Bembo elevated the Boccaccian style to a model of Italian prose in the sixteenth century, and On Famous Women. Some scholars (including Vittore Branca) define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as " the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Giovanni Boccaccio ( UK: / b ə ˈ k æ tʃ i oʊ/, US: / b oʊ ˈ k ɑː tʃ( i) oʊ, b ə-/, Italian: 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.
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