distinguish. The desire of another human being leads to irrational thought and actions. Sometimes one will create sensations of love where no love exists. As demonstrated in both William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron‚ and Po Hsing-Chien’s The Story of Miss Li one may create feelings of love in order to overcome a recent or persisting tragedy. In Romeo and Juliet‚ Romeo’s breakup with his former romantic interest‚ Rosaline‚ left him unsuspectingly susceptible
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figure in Italian history and literature‚ and was among the founders of the Renaissance. Although Boccaccio studied law for years‚ he found that his main interest was in poetry and writing. One of his most famous works was the Decameron‚ which he completed in 1358. The Decameron narrates the stories of 10 people‚ both men and women who reside in a villa in Florence to escape the plague. This work influenced Europe and several other writers including Shakespeare and Chaucer. Because Boccaccio was one
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N.S. Thompson‚ Chaucer‚ Boccaccio‚ and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales. Oxford: Clarendon‚ 1996; 354pp.; Nigel Thompson’s book resists alignment with current concerns in late-medieval studies: he has little or nothing to say about manuscripts and their dissemination; about the audiences‚ reception‚ and imitation of the works he treats; about gender and its representation; about contemporary social and political developments and how these works
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About 16 million people died because of the disease. People called it the Bubonic Plague or “Black Death”. Many people were affected because of the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague or “Black Death” was a disadvantage. The people that were infected had symptoms because of the disease. In Document 1‚ it said that the Bubonic Plague began in (Europe) Italy. It started approximately in 1348‚ and it took 2 years for the plague to spread. The Bubonic Plague travelled East to West. The Bubonic
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for help as a person not as a God. Dealing with humanism this story shows how Virgil helped Dante in a way. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings and that’s what happens in the Inferno. Giovanni Boccaccio’s‚ Decameron is a collection of 100 short stories known as a frame story. It can be looked at as a story within a story. The tale deals with 7 women and 3 men who move in order to escape the Black Death. They are there for fourteen days and on ten of those days
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Italian communes 7. Writers: Castiglione (The Book of the Courtier)‚ Machiavelli (The Prince/views)‚ Dante (Divine Comedy)‚ Petrarch‚ Laura Cereta (women ideas)‚ Peter Paul Vergerio (education)‚ Lorenzo Valla (textual criticism)‚ Boccaccio (The Decameron)‚ Erasmus (In Praise of Folly/ideas)‚
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Italian Literature A study of Italian literature has strongly influenced not only the Europeans but also the world. It shows passionate sensitivity to goodness and true beauty of life. The Italian love for Christian virtue‚ faith‚ hope‚ and charity radiates in both their prose and poetry. For Italians‚ true love and nobility‚ which are manifested in their literary works‚ are inseparable. FAMOUS POETS PROFILE WORKS SHORT DESCRIPTION of WORKS Horace Virgil Livy Ovid
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Sept 2-5 Chapter 9--290-314 (In this section do not feel you have to memorize the names of kings or Popes) Essential Question: “What were the most significant social and religious events of the late Middle Ages (early Renaissance)?” Vocabulary: Decameron‚ Jacquerie‚ guild‚ Estates General‚ primogeniture‚ Unam Sanctam‚ Wycliffe‚ Lollards‚ Hussites‚ heresy‚ Great Schism‚ Conciliar Movement‚ Golden Horde WEEK 3: Sept 8-12 Chapter 10—Pages 318-338 Essential Question: “How did the humanists impact culture
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Exterminating around a third of Europe’s population in just three years‚ the Black Death affected nearly every aspect of society as it ravaged through countrysides and towns. Entering Europe in 1348‚ this deadly plague drastically altered the nation socioeconomically as it swept across the nation blindly‚ careless to one’s social status or prosperity (Khan Academy). Surprisingly‚ the main culprit found to be responsible for such severe damage was a bacterium carried by fleas. The likelihood of this
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Renaissance literature usually begin with Petrarch (best known for the elegantly polished vernacular sonnet sequence of Il Canzoniere and for the craze for book collecting that he initiated) and his friend and contemporary Boccaccio (author of the Decameron). Famous vernacular poets of the 15th century include the renaissance epic authors Luigi Pulci (Morgante)‚ Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando Innamorato)‚ and Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando Furioso). 15th century writers such as the poet Poliziano and the
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