Giovanni Sercambi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Giovanni Sercambi

Italian writer

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1348

Place of Birth: Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Giovanni Sercambi

  • Giovanni Sercambi (1348–1424) was an Italian author from Lucca who wrote a history of his city, Le croniche di Luccha, as well as Il novelliere (or Novelle), a collection of 155 tales.
  • Sercambi composed Le croniche di Luccha from c.?1368 until his death from plague in 1424.The unfinished Il novelliere has a frame story based on Boccaccio's Decameron, in which the storytellers flee the Lucca to avoid the plague of 1374.
  • One of the stories, La novella d'Astolfo, is notable for showing parallels with the tale of Shahriyar and Shahzaman in the One Thousand and One Nights.

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