Giovanni Sercambi (1348–1424) was an Italian author from

Lucca Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as ...

who wrote a history of his city, ''Le croniche di Luccha'', as well as ''Il novelliere'' (or ''Novelle''), a collection of 155 tales. Sercambi composed ''Le croniche di Luccha'' from until his death from plague in 1424. The unfinished ''Il novelliere'' has a frame story based on Boccaccio's '' Decameron'', in which the storytellers flee the Lucca to avoid the plague of 1374. One of the stories, ''La novella d'Astolfo'', is notable for showing parallels with the tale of Shahriyar and Shahzaman in the ''

One Thousand and One Nights ''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian ...

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*Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg "Telling Lies, Telling Lives: Giovanni Sercambi Between ''Cronaca'' and ''Novella''" in ''The Italian Novella'', ed. Gloria Allaire (Western Michigan University Press, 2003) *Robert Irwin ''The Arabian Nights: A Companion'' (Tauris Parkes Paperbacks, 2005) {{DEFAULTSORT:Sercambi, Giovanni 1348 births 1424 deaths Italian male writers Writers from Lucca