For 10 points—name this author who wrote about ten Florentines escaping the Black Death in his Decameron.
He wrote a mythographical account of the Greco-Roman gods in his On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, while Palemone and Arcita compete for the love of Emilia in one epic poem by this man about the reign of Theseus, Teseida.  Another work by this author contains biographies of Julian the Apostate, King Arthur, Hannibal and Agamemmnon, while he wrote about the love of Fiametta for Panfilio in a first person novel.  This author of On the Fates of Famous Men and The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta wrote another work which contains the stories of the mercenary Ser Ciapelletto, Posthumous's wager on the chastity of Imogen, and Lisabetta and the pot of basil.  For 10 points—name this author who wrote about ten Florentines escaping the Black Death in his Decameron.
He wrote a mythographical account of the Greco-Roman gods in his On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, while Palemone and Arcita compete for the love of Emilia in one epic poem by this man about the reign of Theseus, Teseida.  
Giovanni {Boccaccio}