Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian author and poet
Born 1313 · died 21 December 1375, aged 61 or 62
Who was alive at the same time as Giovanni Boccaccio?
When Giovanni Boccaccio was born, Marco Polo was 58 or 59, Ibn Battuta was 8 or 9, Petrarch was 8 or 9 and Osman I was 54 or 55.
When Giovanni Boccaccio died, Ibn Khaldun was 42 or 43, Timur was 39 and Zheng He was 3 or 4.
Born during Giovanni Boccaccio’s lifetime: Geoffrey Chaucer, Ibn Khaldun, Hafez, Timur and Zheng He.
Not quite contemporaries: Donatello was born 9 years after Giovanni Boccaccio died.