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Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (c.
Circa
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1300 – 31 March 1342) was an Augustinian

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monk

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who was at one time Petrarch

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's confessor

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, and who taught Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

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at the beginning of his education in the humanities. He was Bishop of Monopoli in Apulia

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. He was surnamed, not uncommonly for the trecento

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, for the town in which he was born, now Sansepolcro

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Sansepolcro , is a town and comune in Tuscany, Italy, in the province of Arezzo.Situated on the upper reaches of the Tiber river, Borgo was the birthplace of the painters Piero della Francesca, Raffaellino del Colle and Angiolo Tricca...

in Tuscany

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. His family name was de' Roberti. Dionigi is the Italian form of Dennis, Latin Dionysius.
Dionigi joined the Augustinian monastery in Borgo San Sepolcro at an early age; it had been founded in 1281.