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Of his later works the moralistic biographies gathered as De casibus virorum illustrium ( 1355 – 74 ) and De mulieribus claris ( 1361 – 1375 ) were most significant.

Other works include a dictionary of geographical allusions in classical literature, De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, et de nominibus maris liber ( a title desperate for the coining of the word " geography ").

He gave a series of lectures on Dante at the Santo Stefano church in 1373 and these resulted in his final major work, the detailed Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante.

Boccaccio and Petrarch were also two of the most educated people in early Renaissance in the field of archaeology.