Boccaccio
pronunciation
How to pronounce Boccaccio in British English:
UK [bəuˈkɑ:tʃiəu]
How to pronounce Boccaccio in American English:
US [boˈkɑtʃiˌo, -ˌtʃo]
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- Noun:
- Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375)
Word Origin
- Boccaccio
- the name means "big-mouth" in Italian, from boccaccia, augmentative of bocca "mouth" (see bouche).
Example
- 1. The distinguished italian linguist tullio de mauro has estimated that at the time of unification , just 2.5 percent of the population spoke italian -- that is , the florentine vernacular that evolved from the works of dante and boccaccio .
- 2. " Writers like petrarch and giovanni boccaccio in italy , franois rabelais in france , and william shakespeare in england produced works that emphasized the intricacies of human character . "
- 3. Boccaccio also discussed this question : two women also fallen in love with a young man , a woman brave told his palpitations , another woman far is stopped , exactly which the young woman love more ?
- 4. Instead , dante turned back to the streets , picking up the real florentine language spoken by the residents of his city ( who included such luminous contemporaries as boccaccio and petrarch ) and using that language to tell his tale .
- 5. Officials say the ship , al salam boccaccio 98 , disappeared from radar screens shortly after sailing from the port of dubah in western saudi arabia late thursday .