1. Alighieri Dante Major Achievements: The founder of the modern Italian language.

Famous for his long poem "The Divine Comedy" (originally called "The Comedy"), which was later named ''The Divine Comedy'' by a writer named Boccaccio. The Divine Comedy is divided into three sections, the first called "Hell", the second "Purgatory", and the third "Paradise", and has remained famous for generations to come.

2. Franzisko Petrarch's main achievement: the first humanist of the Renaissance.

Famous for his sonnets, which opened the way for the development of European lyric poetry, he was honored as the "Saint of Poetry". He is also known as Dante and Boccaccio, who are referred to in literary history as the "Three Great Stars".

3. Giovanni Boccaccio's main achievement: Italian Renaissance pioneer, outstanding humanist writer.

His masterpiece, The Decameron, is the first realist work in the history of European literature. It criticizes the religious old-fashioned thinking and advocates "happiness on earth", which is regarded as the manifesto of the Renaissance.

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Characteristics of Giovanni Boccaccio's works: Boccaccio's early works are characterized by the theme of love, and borrowed from the ancient Greek and Roman poetry, myths and legends, which show the traces of the medieval tradition and chivalric literature, but free from the clichés, full of the pursuit of human life and happiness, and condemning asceticism. It condemns asceticism.

Boccaccio, in his theoretical writings, criticized the Church's denigration of poetry and put forward the idea that "poetry is theology"; he asked poets to draw nourishment from ancient Greek and Roman culture, and to emphasize fiction and imagination.

It had a profound influence on the development of European literature. After Boccaccio's death and until the middle of the fifteenth century, the Italian humanist movement was mainly characterized by the study of ancient cultures, and no important writers appeared.

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