FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Dante and Boccaccio
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Boccaccio and Petrarch
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Petrarch and Dante
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The writer, Giovanni Boccaccio, became Petrarch’s closest friend of later life, a protégé and a support to the poet during his old age. After first exchanging letters, Petrarch met him in 1350 while passing through Florence on a Jubilee-year pilgrimage to Rome.
Detailed explanation-2: -21, 1375, Certaldo, Tuscany), Italian poet and scholar, best remembered as the author of the earthy tales in the Decameron. With Petrarch he laid the foundations for the humanism of the Renaissance and raised vernacular literature to the level and status of the classics of antiquity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works, including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poems in the vernacular.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did the writing of Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Machiavelli demonstrate the values of humanism? They wrote in new, unfamiliar styles that inspired other writers and made literature more widespread. Their literary accomplishments included a lot of poetry (sonnets), short but realistic stories, and political guidebooks.