Sacchetti, FRANCO (c. 1330-99), an Italian novelist, a follower of Boccaccio, was a native of Florence, who held several diplomatic offices. Of his 258 Novelle, first printed in 1724, ten are translated in Thomas Roscoe's Italian Novelists (1825).
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