Masuccio Salernitano

Masuccio Salernitano (also Tommaso Guardati of Salerno; * 1410 in Salerno, † after 1475 ) was an Italian writer.

Masuccio Salernitano lived in the second half of the 15th century the Aragonese Fürstenhof to Naples and is famous as the author of Novellino (Naples 1476, Milan in 1483, Venice in 1484 and 1492), a collection of 50 short stories, one page piece by Giovanni Boccaccio " Decameron ", true life, often contain swashbuckling genre paintings from the society of that time and therefore the researcher for Italian art, customs and local history of the 14th and 15th centuries offer an invaluable source. It is dedicated to Hippolyta of Aragon.