Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

male, deceased (1375)
Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 - December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important...

John Payne

male, deceased (1916)
John Payne was an English poet and translator, from Devon. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later...
Johnny Coppin

Johnny Coppin

male, 63 years old
Johnny Coppin (born 5 April 1946) is an English singer/songwriter, composer and poetry anthologist. He plays guitar and piano and has written and...
Ghino di Tacco

Ghino di Tacco

male
Ghinotto di Tacco, called Ghino, was an outlaw in thirteenth century Italy. He was born in the latter half of the thirteenth century in La Fratta,...
Phil Beer

Phil Beer

male, 56 years old
Phil Beer (born 1953 in Exminster, Devon) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and one half of English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands....

Calandrino

male
Calandrino is a beloved character from Giovanni Boccaccio's the "Decameron", in which he appears as a character in four stories. In these tales he...
Jasper Carrott

Jasper Carrott

male, 64 years old
Jasper Carrott OBE (born Robert Davis, March 14 1945) is an English comedian (declaring himself "world famous in Birmingham").
Wilfried Knight

Wilfried Knight

male
Wilfried Knight (born: Feb. 1978) is a porn star who appears in pornographic movies aimed at gay audiences. He works exclusively for Lucas...
Giovanni Francesco Straparola

Giovanni Francesco Straparola

male, deceased (1557)
Giovanni Francesco (or Gianfrancesco) Straparola (Caravaggio, c. 1480 - c. 1557) was an Italian writer and fairy tale collector. He has been termed...
Buonamico Buffalmacco

Buonamico Buffalmacco

male
Buonamico di Martino or Buonamico Buffalmacco was an Italian painter who worked in Florence, Bologna and Pisa. None of his known work has survived,...