FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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Detailed explanation-1: -Highly polished, elegant vernacular prose; fresh, descriptive, conversational vernacular. Although Boccaccio follows the well-established tradition of modestly berating his own literary abilities, there’s no real way that he truly believed that he was a writer of small talent.
Detailed explanation-2: -The book’s primary title exemplifies Boccaccio’s fondness for Greek philology: Decameron combines two Greek words, Greek: dÈka ("ten") and (Greek: hemÈra ("day"), to form a term that means “ten-day event". Ten days is the time period in which the characters of the frame story tell their tales.
Detailed explanation-3: -Writing in the vernacular and not Latin, Boccaccio, along with Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 CE) and Petrarch (1304-1374 CE), helped promote the use of Tuscan as a legitimate language for poetic literature.