IT 1751 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Giovanni Boccaccio, Certaldo, Elegy

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Has a religious and political way of looking at society. Deals with betrayal and people who betray their own benefactors. Lucifer is shown as being a giant creature with bat-like wings that he constantly flaps creating the cold and ice in this layer of hell. Contrast between the love of god and the evil of the world. Three heads of lucifer is another example of the use of the number three in the. Brutus and cassius, two romans who killed julius caesar. Dante"s political belief is not just to have a unified italy, but a unified italy within an empire. Dante and virgil climb lucifer to escape inferno and they follow the light at the end of the cave to guide them out. Born in 1313 and died in 1375 dispute about when boccaccio was born. His father was a merchant and boccaccio was an illegitimate son. He went to tuscany and as an older man lived in certaldo.

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