Dante, Boccaccio & Machiavelli

Reading these three books—Dante's Inferno, Boccaccio's Decameron, and Machiavelli's The Prince—has given me the opportunity to appreciate how much Italian literature has influenced modern writing and philosophic thought. For one thing, Dante's writing was the first to break away from Latin to what was then the vernacular. By doing so, he opened up an entirely new universe of literature. At the same time, he was able to create a literary space that had never been worked out before, while still basi

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