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This 5 page paper discusses writers from Renaissance Europe and their perceptions of fortune. Specifically, this paper examines the writings of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Cabeza de Vaca and More. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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portrayal varied from one notable Renaissance author to the next. Though the famous works of that time perhaps diverged in terms of their treatment of the idea of fortune,
the concept itself was addressed by such renown literary greats as Machiavelli, Boccaccio, More, and Cabeza de Vaca. This was a very profound issue at the time given the
disparity between the "haves" and the "have-nots" and their levels of status within Renaissance Europe. Fortune and Renaissance Europe In
Boccaccios Decameron, fortune is a very vital force. In this work Boccaccio reveals fortune to be very unpredictable and cyclical in nature. Basically then, Boccaccios view of the
world was, in many ways, a response to the flourishing mercantilism of the time. As new merchants found their fortunes, Boccaccio was both admiring this effort as well as
warning of how fortune is also ever-changing and cyclical. Therefore, to those who sought their fortunes, Boccaccio presented both his encouragement and warning.
Clearly these were important messages at the time given the flourishing enterprise which was transpiring. It was during the lifetime of Boccaccio that there was
a dramatic shift in perception in regards to fortune, and what was once believed to be a pre-ordained right was now considered to be the result of enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Boccaccio echoed this shift in perception in The Decameron. It is obvious that since all temporal things are transient and mortal, so they are filled and
surrounded by troubles, trials and tribulations, and fraught with infinite dangers which we, who live with them and are part of them, could without a shadow of a doubt neither
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