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Certaldo

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Certaldo

Town in Tuscany region, north-central Italy, in the Elsa valley, 30 km/19 mi southwest of Florence; population (1990) 16,100. There is a trade in wine, olive oil, and agricultural produce. The Italian writer and poet Giovanni Boccaccio lived and died here.
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At a certain point of Filocolo's plot, when Florio takes the name of Filocolo (from Greek "philos" and "colon" = love's labor) for the journey, they reach a forest in Tuscany, not far from Pisa, called "cerreto" (oakgrove), from which the homologous place Certaldo, and therefore the identity of Giovanni of Certaldo alias Boccaccio.
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