A suitor is tasked with making a garden flower in the winter in this author's novel The Filocolo, and he wrote a variation on the Troilus and Cressida story in Il Filostrato. He included 106 biographies of both good and wicked examples of females in his On Famous Women, but he is best known for a work in which seven women and three men flee from plague-ridden Florence for ten days. For 10 points, name this Italian author 
A suitor is tasked with making a garden flower in the winter in this author's novel The Filocolo, and he wrote a variation on the Troilus and Cressida story in Il Filostrato. He included 106 biographies of both good and wicked examples of females in his On Famous Women, but he is best known for a work in which seven women and three men flee from plague-ridden Florence for ten days. For 10 points, name this Italian author who included a hundred stories in his Decameron.
A suitor is tasked with making a garden flower in the winter in this author's novel The Filocolo, and he wrote a variation on the Troilus and Cressida story in Il Filostrato.
Giovanni {Boccaccio}