Inferno canto iii: "through me pass into the painful city, through me pass into eternal grief, through me pass among the lost people. . before me nothing was created that was not eternal, and i last eternally. all hope abandon, you who enter here." at the gate of hell, dante sees this inscription that he calls “hard to take." how does the use of anaphora affect the impact of the inscription?

Anaphora is the rhetoric use of words referring to or replacing a word used earlier. The successive clauses lent  the inscription more emphasis by the (replacement words with) multiple intense ideas that describe the path.  It painted a clearer and more colorful picture of the path  Dante was passing.

fearlessness is your answer

boccaccio employs the voice of his narrator dioneo to represent his ideas on the tension between masculinity and femininity.  while dioneo excites the members of the brigata and recognizes women for their unique skills and independent ideas, he concludes the decameron with a story reminiscent of the society from which these young aristocrats escaped, revealing misogynistic overtones.  dioneo boccaccio is able to explore the gender disparity which is inherent in 14th century florentine society.