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#26 – Boccaccio Part Two
Let's talk about the Filocolo The title means "the one struck down by love”. It is considered to be the first novel of Italian literature written in prose.…
#25 – Boccaccio Part One
Let's talk about the other, slightly more creepy and rapey father of the Renaissance. For books in the vernacular to appear in considerable quantities, there must be a…
#24 – The Father Of The Renaissance (part three)
"Africa" became alternately Petrarch’s obsession and his revulsion, and he left it incomplete at his death. Despite Petrarch's best efforts to conceal his occupation, word of the Africa…
#23 – The Father Of The Renaissance (part two)
Now that his parents are dead, Petrarch decides to dump law and become a scholar and a poet. But you couldn’t make a living as a poet in…