1. Renaissance Literature By: Jared, Gianna, Victoria, and Amber

2. Vernacular Literature Before this everything was written in Latin. The Vernacular Literature was the language that the country spoke and would printed in that language. Dante and Chaucer are the first two authors to use this and make it popular to the world.

3. Chaucer Used the English Vernacular language His famous work is “The Canterbury Tales” The format of this book gave Chaucer the chance to portray an entire range of English society.

4. Dante Italian author Helped make Vernacular literature more popular Masterpiece in the Italian Vernacular is the Divine Comedy

5. Petrarch Called Father of the Italian Renaissance Looked for forgotten Latin manuscripts Began the humanist emphasis on using pure classical Latin

6. arguably the best playwright in history most famous pieces are “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet”. Walt Disney’s “Lion King” was based of of Shakespeare's “Hamlet” William Shakespeare “ To be or not to be, that is the question.”