{{short description, 14th-century Italian mythographer Paulus Perusinus or Pusinus was an Italian mythographer of the 14th century. He is extensively quoted in

Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was somet ...

Genealogia Deorum Gentilium ''Genealogia deorum gentilium'', known in English as ''On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles'', is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and Rome, writt ...

(XVI, 6), but otherwise almost unknown. He was Head Librarian at the service of King Robert of Sicily and Jerusalem (Robert the Wise), a thorough investigator on foreign books and a close friend of

Barlaam of Seminara Barlaam of Seminara (Bernardo Massari, as a layman), c. 1290–1348, or Barlaam of Calabria ( gr, Βαρλαὰμ Καλαβρός) was an Eastern Orthodox Greek scholar born in southern Italy he was a scholar and clergyman of the 14th century, a ...

, Boccaccio's own master. He attributes Paul an extensive treatise entitled ''Collections'' which was lost after his death. Boccaccio praises Paul's work, particularly when he quotes a certain

Theodontius Theodontius was the author of a now lost Latin work on mythology. He was extensively quoted in Giovanni Boccaccio's ''Genealogia Deorum Gentilium'', but is otherwise almost unknown. Boccaccio says that he knew Theodontius's work through the ''Colle ...

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(Venice, 1472), Book XVI, chapter VI. Mythographers 14th-century Italian writers People from Perugia