The Canterbury Tales

The device Chaucer employs in the canterbury tales of many characters gathered together,each telling stories,was not new. The idea had been used by an italian author in a work probably begun sometime in the late 1340's.who was the italian poet?

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It was most probably Giovanni Boccaccio.

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