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A 13 page paper which considers how fate, divine justice and issues of philosophy, religion and love are conveyed in these two classic Italian literary works. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Western Europe. Although the Christian religion was firmly woven into the spiritual tapestry of Italy during this time, certain catastrophic events prompted men to begin questioning the will of
God as opposed to the free will of the individual as well as the benevolence of the divine justice they had once held so dear. Fourteenth-century Italian literature represented
the prevailing religious and philosophical concepts of this era, and two of the most famous works mark a definite shift in moral values. After being exiled from his beloved
Florence during a political scandal, Dante Alighieri began writing his epic poetic trilogy, "The Divine Comedy" in approximately 1300, which signifies the Christian trinity of the father, son and holy
spirit and the souls decent into three levels of the hereafter, depending upon its capacity for redemption - inferno (or hell), purgatorio (purgatory) and paradiso (paradise). Approximately fifty years
later, Giovanni Boccaccio, a devout student of the Romantic sonneteer Petrarch, immortalized his countrys devastation as a result of the bubonic plague (also known as the Black Death) in The
Decameron, an accumulation of 100 stories told by 10 people (seven women and three men) within a ten-day period. While Dantes poem makes it clear that the human soul
can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccaccio is not so sure. What kind of a merciful God allows such heinous earthly
suffering and destruction without intervening? Is it the fate of mortal Christian man to endure immeasurable anguish in the name of divine justice, or does he have some choices
at his disposal? "Inferno" describes protagonist Dante the Pilgrims journey through hell, with the unlikely pagan poet Virgil as his guide. The poem is carefully constructed in keeping with
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