FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Poggio Bracciolini
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Francis Petrarch
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Lorenzo de’ Medici
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Crowns of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio | University of New England.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are sometimes called the three crowns of Italian Renaissance Literature and Poetry due to the way their works foreshadowed the dramatic change western civilization was about to undergo. These writers revolutionized literature even before the development of the printing press.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante’s example is fundamentally important for the poetic apprenticeship of the young Boccaccio, particularly after his return to Florence from Naples, in 1341. In the Florentine works of the following years Boccaccio is clearly emulating Dante.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.