Some literary critics believe that a large portion of the tale may have been written before the rest of the Canterbury Tales and that the four most contemporary figures were added at a later point. A likely dating for this hypothetical first draft of the text would be the 1370s, shortly after Chaucer returned from a trip to Italy where he was exposed to Giovanni Boccaccio's Concerning the Falls of Illustrious Men as well as other works such as the Decameron. The tragedy of Bernabò Visconti must have been written after 1385, the date of the protagonist's death. The basic structure for the tale is modeled after the Giovanni Boccaccio's Illustrious Men, while the tale of Ugolino of Pisa is retold from Dante's Inferno
Our backyard was all soggy from the rain the dogs paws were all muddy.
Antigone, lines 357-363:
I dared. It was not God’s proclamation. That final Justice that rules the world below makes no such laws. Your edict, King, was strong, But all your strength is weakness itself against the immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were, and shall be, operative for ever, beyond man utterly.
In this tragedy, Sophocles opposes human law (which descends from <em>nomos</em>, custom) and divine law (which has its root in <em>physis</em>, the natural order). Antigone defies Creon because she believes that his orders (that Polyneices be denied the burial he is due according to Greek custom) go against the will of the Gods. She places herself as a guardian of tradition, and rejects Creon's authority to go against religion.