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Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. He was known par excellence as the Certaldese, and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. 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.

Below is a recent realized price for a Dante Alighieri La Divina Commedia leaf – Danti del Cento’ group  item. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:

Dante Alighieri La Divina Commedia Leaf – Danti del Cento’ Group . Sold for over $100,000.

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Winston Churchill signed copy of his 1937 book “Great Contemporaries.” Signed and inscribed, “To Mr. Alfred B. Strauss from Winston S. Churchill / 1951” on the front free endpaper. Published by Thornton Butterworth Ltd.: London: 1948, later printing. In publisher’s original cloth. Some rubbing to spine and edges, faint toning to signature page, and two sets of staple marks at top and bottom right of signature page, far away from writing. Overall in very good condition. Sold for $3,336.

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