Similarities: All of these three personalities are Italian nationals and famous poets of the middle ages. They are together called “the three fountains” and also “the three crowns”. All of them wrote poems on love due to falling in love with a lady of their time. Dante fell in love with Beatrice, Petrarch with Laura and Boccaccio with Catherine of Valois-Courtenay.
Differences: All of them had different family backgrounds. Dante is presumed to study at home in the early age however Petrarch studied law and Boccaccio got his early education from Mazzuoli who taught him about the work of Dante.
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