# Giovanni Boccaccio

- id: boccaccio
- dates: 1313–1375
- roles: patron, scholar

Author of the Decameron and host of the project: he lodged Pilatus, procured the Greek, and pressed the work on, with Petrarch cheering from Milan.

## Crossings

- c. 1360–1362: Iliad into Latin (patron) [attested]
- c. 1360–1362: Odyssey into Latin (patron) [attested]

## Sources

- N. G. Wilson (1992). From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance.