Top People in Values
Top Books in Values
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Books/Writings
Giovanni Boccaccio
1313 – 1375
Italian

Writer and scholar. Influential Italian poet, author of Decameron, a celebration of Bohemian lifestyles, in addition to other works.

Contemporaries
1330–1384Wycliffe
1285–1349William of Ockham
fl. c. 1250–c. 1350Wilhelm Tell
1290–1349Richard of Hampole Rolle
1313–1354Cola di Rienzi
1254–1324Marco Polo
1304–1374Petrarch
1275–1342Marsilius of Padua
fl. 1350Jehan de Mandeville
1370–1451John Lydgate
1235–1315Ramon Llull
1332–1400William Langland
1373–1440Margery Kempe
1342–1413Julian of Norwich
1224–1317Jean Joinville
1340–1399John of Gaunt
1370–1440Laurens Janszoon
1325–1408John Gower
1363–1429Jean de Gerson
1333–1404Jean Froissart
1260–1327Johannes Eckhart
1265–1321Dante
1347–1380Catherine of Siena
1300–1358Jean Buridan
1274–1329Robert Bruce
1320–1395John Barbour