THE FATHERS OF THE ITALIAN LITERATURE

  • Period: 1348 BCE to 1853 BCE

    The Decameron

    Boccaccio wrote the book The Decameron composed of 100 stories. The various tales of love in the Decameron go from the erotic to the tragic. They are tales of wit, jokes and life lessons.
  • 1313 BCE

    Giovanni Boccaccio

    They don't know when was born in januari or julay in Certaldo, Italy
    Died on December 21, 1375 in Certaldo, Italy
  • 1313 BCE

    Divine Comedy

    He write the part of he Purgtory. drawn primarily from Christian theology, rather than from classical sources. However, Dante's illustrative examples of sin and virtue draw on classical sources as well as on the Bible and on contemporary events.
  • 1304 BCE

    Divine Comedy

    He began to write the part of inferno.The Inferno represents the Christian soul seeing sin for what it really is, and the three beasts represent three types of sin: the self-indulgent, the violent, and the malicious.
  • 1304 BCE

    Francesco Petrarca

    Born on July 20 in Arezzo, Italy
    Died on July 19, 1374 in Arquá, Italy
  • 1265 BCE

    Dante Alighieri

    Born on May 29 in Florence
    Died on September 14, 1321 in Ravenna
  • 1230 BCE

    Italian language

    First Italian language invented in Sicily (Poetic School of Sicily)
  • Jan 13, 1321

    Divine Comedy

    He write the part of the paradise.The first seven spheres of Heaven deal solely with the cardinal virtues of Prudence, Fortitude, Justice and Temperance
  • Jan 13, 1400

    The importance of Danta, Petrarch and Boccaccio in Italian literature

    The Italian spread throughout Europe by those three writers. But especially for Dante for the Divine Comedy that took 17 years to write.
  • Jan 13, 1470

    Il Canzoniere

    He wrote much before but the Publisher Vindelino de Spira publishen in Venice. The most evident purpose of the Canzoniere is to praise Laura, yet questions concerning the virtue of love in relation to the Christian religion and desire are always present.