Dante and Boccaccio
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1、 The story of "The Decameron" has a wide range of sources, including the medieval Italian novel "The Golden Donkey," medieval French fables and legends, Eastern folktales, historical events, rumors in the court, and even casual conversations on the streets and alleys, as well as real events that happened in Florence and other places at that time.
2、 But due to the incorporation of new ideas and perspectives from humanism by the author of "The Decameron," Boccaccio, these sharp and humorous anecdotes unexpectedly sparked a groundbreaking movement in human cultural history - the Renaissance.
3、 The criticism of asceticism and the promotion of humanism in "The Decameron" led the famous Italian literary critic Sanctis to equate it with Dante's "Divine Comedy" and call it "The Man's Comedy", believing that "Dante ended an era and Boccaccio created another era".
4、 The most famous part of "On the Monarch" is his comprehensive study of the monarchs' power of governance.
5、 The wise man once said, "The weakest and most unreliable thing in the world is the lack of strength, only the power of empty fame
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