Talking about Dante and Boccaccio is , maybe , the most complex thing to do , in one sitting. Their differences and similarities are so obvious in some way but also , in other way , are so vague. If you want to do their comparing and contrasting , you should consider of doing a deep research because with the every source you look up , you find another interesting points.
Their aspects are seperated from each other . Their not also aspects but also writing styles , lifes and thoughts toward the events they live , show some differences. For example ; both used Italian vulgar tongue in their works in the world of 14th century that writing language is Latin. Except this , they may have many contrasts but especially I want to talk about their different aspects for love.
Their family lifes and high likings for literature seem , can be said , virtually equal . When it comes to love , they both deeply affected by the women that they fall in love . They even write some pieces dedicated to them , and their love also impressed their other works.
Beatrice is a girl that Dante falls in love when he was nine and she was eight. Dante falls in love with her at first sight but they first get in touch after nine years . That day , he falls a sleep and has a dream about her that also makes a big influence on his work , La Vita Nuova. He sees her as a divine beauty and the symbol of purity. Her first greeting to him also takes a big place as following paragraphs ;
When exactly nine years had passed since this gracious being appeared to me, as I have described, it happened that on the last day of this intervening period this marvel appeared before me again, dressed in purest white, walking between two other women of distinguished bearing, both o...
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...ut their love life and the effects of it on their life and , especially , works. I think that is the works of the writer , which represents his natural thoughts and feelings . He can keep his feelings between the lines , he doesn’t have to show it directly but at least he may have talked about it .
As a conclusion , the ideas of any two person , can show some resemblances in some way but at the end it shows the contrast , because each one’s own life , love , style and the circumstances they get through , are different from each other and also their effects.
Love is not a thing to underestimate , it isn’t matter what others say , it is you who is to make the decision . Because it is once or twice that you find your soul , ideas and the same feelings with you , in another one’s. As Aristotle says ; ‘’ Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ‘’
Dante write one of the masterpiece of the literature, a book that even third fourths of a century later people still reading but behind dark lines like as “Through me you enter into the city of woes, Through me you enter into the eternal pain, Through me you enter the population of loss” (Dante 19.1-3) must exist a reason or a purpose to write these lines. Dante born in 1265 in the cradle of Florence. In his childhood only two things happen that has transcendental for his work in literature, her mother died in 1272 (when Dante had 7 years old). Also, in may 1 of 1974 he meets Beatrice when he was nine years and her eight years and Dante instantly falls in love with her. “She began in a soft angelic voice”(Dante 13.47), this type of word Dante
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