LIFE during 14th century Italy: LITERATURE AND POETRY

For my blog today, I've decided to start with Literature and Poetry of Italy during the 14th century. As Boccaccio as our inspiration, I said "Hey! I think I should start from where Boccaccio is really known for." So here it goes.

When it comes to Literature and Poetry during this time, there are some big names that we might know. And I'm here to enumerate some of this well known artists.

First of, we have FRANCESCO PETRARCH. Petrarch was the first humanist, and he was at the same time the first modern lyric poet. He's a psychological poet, who examines all his feelings and renders them with an art of exquisite sweetness.  He is pretty well known from his works such as Canzoniere (Songbook) and the Trionfi (Triumphs)

Another well known artist was DANTE ALIGHERI, the greatest of all Italian poets. Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy) made Dante immortal, and raised him above all other men of genius in Italy.

Last but certainly not the least is GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO. He did not actually invent the octave stanza, but was the first to use it in a work of length and artistic merit, his Teseide, the oldest Italian romantic poem. Boccaccio became famous principally for the Italian work Decamerone, a collection of a hundred novels, related by a party of men and women who retired to a villa near Florence to escape the plague.

After those great artists, more and more artists arise to be one of them and some actually followed their steps and made them as their inspiration.

Check again next time for another LIFE DURING 14TH CENTURY ITALY. :)