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Renaissance Literature

Renaissance Literature. By: Jared, Gianna, Victoria, and Amber. Vernacular Literature. Before this everything was written in Latin. The Vernacular Literature was the language that the country spoke and would printed in that language.

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Renaissance Literature

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  1. Renaissance Literature By: Jared, Gianna, Victoria, and Amber

  2. Vernacular Literature • Before this everything was written in Latin. • The Vernacular Literature was the language that the country spoke and would printed in that language. • Dante and Chaucer are the first two authors to use this and make it popular to the world.

  3. Chaucer • Used the English Vernacular language • His famous work is “The Canterbury Tales” • The format of this book gave Chaucer the chance to portray an entire range of English society.

  4. Dante • Italian author • Helped make Vernacular literature more popular • Masterpiece in the Italian Vernacular is the Divine Comedy

  5. Petrarch • Called Father of the Italian Renaissance • Looked for forgotten Latin manuscripts • Began the humanist emphasis on using pure classical Latin

  6. William Shakespeare “To be or not to be, that is the question.” • arguably the best playwright in history • most famous pieces are “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet”. • Walt Disney’s “Lion King” was based of of Shakespeare's “Hamlet”

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