The distinguished italian linguist tullio de mauro has estimated that at the time of unification , just 2.5 percent of the population spoke italian -- that is , the florentine vernacular that evolved from the works of dante and boccaccio .
" Writers like petrarch and giovanni boccaccio in italy , franois rabelais in france , and william shakespeare in england produced works that emphasized the intricacies of human character . "
意大利的佩脱拉克和薄伽丘、法国的拉伯雷以及英国的莎士比亚等一批作家写出的作品强调人性的复杂性。
Boccaccio also discussed this question : two women also fallen in love with a young man , a woman brave told his palpitations , another woman far is stopped , exactly which the young woman love more ?
Instead , dante turned back to the streets , picking up the real florentine language spoken by the residents of his city ( who included such luminous contemporaries as boccaccio and petrarch ) and using that language to tell his tale .