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Boccaccio: The Decameron
The article describes the happening of the Black Death and the ideas along with the themes of Renaissance and Humanism. The article describes how the Decameron speaks against church corruption and reflects the worldly attitude of living as a happily. It condemns the demoting of the principals of Christian principles that had ruled every day life in the time before the Renaissance. It describes how renaissance was illustrated by the changing morals, the changing attitude of the people towards sin began and Sin becoming more acceptable when the gains of sinning had become rich.
The source of the article is secondary source since the document has been translated from the medieval or archival source. This is due to the digital mode of presentation and the long historical time lapse of when the article written. The source of the article is reliable enough since its contents portray originality and the text passes the critical textual analysis. The source of the article; medieval sourcebook, is authentic enough to present the article as well as the content to the readers. Completed about 1353 the article was written by Giovanni Boccaccio.
The article describes the Decameron that takes place in Florence in 1348. About the time that Boccaccio was writing The Decameron, the Black Death was happening in Western Europe. This makes the content of the article have circumstantial reliability. The Article has clear translation issues due to the difference from the original Italian language to English language. Translation has affected the presentation of the details of the paper which can be detected by the reader. However, these translation effects do not change the objectives of the literary content to a keen reader.
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Boccaccio. G. (1375). The onset of the Black Death. Retrieved from, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/boccacio2.asp June 2013