renaissance literature and writers

LANGUAGE AND

SPELLING H.S

Renaissance Period started at 1300 until mid-16th

century.

It started at Florence, Italy

RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

There are many writers that shows the ideas of the Renaissance Period.

Dante Alighieri

Dante

An Italian poet whose “Divina Commedia” (The Divine Comedy) is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature.

Written in Dante’s regional (Tuscan) dialect, this philosophical poem defined the Italian language as a literary one, and established the Tuscan dialect as the standard for Italian.

He was the first to use the vernacular in poetry instead of the almost universally used Latin.

Francisco Petrarca

Petrarca

An Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest Humanists.

Petrarch is often called the “Father of Humanism”.

Canzoniere

A collection of poems written by Petrarca

GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

An Italian author, poet, and, along with Petrarch, the earliest Renaissance humanist.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

An English poet and dramatist, considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time.

Shakespeare utilized his knowledge of Greek and Roman classics when writing his plays, before the renaissance, these texts had been suppressed by the Church.

He focused on creating “human” characters with psychological complexity

The upheaval in the accepted social hierarchy allowed Shakespeare to explore the humanity of every character regardless of their social position.

ESSAY WRITING:

What is the importance of the Renaissance Literature and the Renaissance Writers into the Modern Period?