Strongly influenced by Petrarch was the younger Giovanni Boccaccio.
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Between the death of Boccaccio(1375) and the rise of Cosimo de‘Medici(1434),
the Municipality of Florence further accentuated the oligarchic character of its institutions.
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While there, he discovered the stories of the author Boccaccio, who wrote in Italian,
the language of the common people, rather than Latin, the language of the gentry.