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. • Dante and Chaucer are the first two

authors to use this and make it popular to the world.

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.

Dante

• Italian author • Helped make Vernacular literature

more popular• Masterpiece in the Italian Vernacular

is the Divine Comedy

Petrarch

• Called Father of the Italian Renaissance• Looked for forgotten Latin

manuscripts• Began the humanist emphasis on

using pure classical Latin

• 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”

William Shakespeare“To be or not to be, that is the question.”