Dante

Why is Dante such an important writer?

He is so important because he is considered fahter of the Italian language, thanks to his
best-known work: The Divine Comedy, where he wrote about what he really think and it for him
and for most of us the three tiers of the Christian afterlife: purgatory, heaven and hell. No one
had described before in such detail and with many mythological hits like he did. It was
considered a revolution to all that were related with the church. In fact, considered the greatest
work of literature composed in Italian, and one of the firsts written in modern literature and
modern Italian. He is important because he was the first person who dared to reveal his true
thoughts.

Petrarch

What made Petrarch a relevant writer?

Petrarch's one passion was writing. His first pieces were poems that he composed after the
death of his mother. He would go on to write sonnets, letters, histories and more. Petrarch's
writing was greatly admired during his lifetime, and he was crowned Rome's poet laureate in
1341. The work Petrarch held in highest regard was his Latin composition Africa, an epic poem
about the Second Punic War. His vernacular poems achieved greater renown, however, and
would later be used to help create the modern Italian language. He was relevant because he is
one of the firsts writers of the Renaissance humanism and he is considered father of humanism
and considered by many father of Renaissance. So, what made him a relevant writer was his
writings and the repercussions of that.