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Vernacular Literature

 

• Italy
• Tuscan Dialect
• Dante (1265-1321)
  • Florence
  • “Divine Comedy” (1313)
  • Inferno (Virgil)
  • Purgatory (Beatrice)
  • Paradise (Bernard & Virgin Mary)
• Petrarch (1304-1374)
  • Laura
  • Mount Ventoux
• Boccaccio (1313-1375)
  • Fiammetta
  • “Decameron”
• Chaucer (1340-1400)
  • The Canterbury Tales
• Cervantes (1547-1616)
• Shakespeare (1564-1616)