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The Italian writer, poet and humanist, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) is probably most familiar in the English-speaking world for his Decameron, a collection of one hundred short stories that were adapted by Chaucer and Shakespeare and inspired works by Swift, Tennyson and Keats. He was a key literary figure in late-medieval...
Aesop's Fables are a timeless collection of fables credited to ancient Greek slave and storyteller, Aesop, who lived between 620 and 564 BC.
Well, the one thing about writing a weekly newspaper column, particularly during a pandemic, is that things change quickly.
Well, the one thing about writing a weekly newspaper column, particularly during a pandemic, is that things change quickly.
<strong>Other lives:</strong> Professor of English at York for many years, then at Harvard, who was well known by medievalists in the UK and US