The Italian Renaissance author, poet and humanist Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is best known for the Decameron. However, he wrote a number of other works, among them Genealogiae Deorum Gentilium, a mythography or encyclopaedic compilation of the complicated relationships of the Greek and Roman deities. This volume also includes a dictionary of geographical allusions in classical literature, entitled De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, et de nominibus maris liber.
