Mango is a beautiful evergreen tree, originally from Burma and eastern regions of India. Petrarch was the next great literary figure in Italy. He worked to restore classical Latin as the language of scholarship and literature. Petrarch believed that Italy was the heir of Rome, and he worked to foster Italian nationalism and unity. In spite of his classical scholarship, his work in Italian is Petrarch’s greatest contribution to literature. His sonnets to Laura bring a fiery passion to Italian literature. Boccaccio’s Decameron (1353) drew on both Dante and Petrarch as influences and in turn influenced numerous writers. It not only uses the vernacular but also uses true-to-life stories. It’s a subgenre of workwear that fashion journalists are already cringingly referring to as shipsterâ€. But while you may not want to dress in it from head to toe, a couple of its key pieces here and there is a good … Read the rest