FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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wrote only the Divine Comedy
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wrote the Divine Comedy
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he wrote only in the Florentine vernacular
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wrote in the vernacular and in Latin
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Detailed explanation-1: -By choosing to write his poem in the Italian vernacular rather than in Latin, Dante decisively influenced the course of literary development. (He primarily used the Tuscan dialect, which would become standard literary Italian, but his vivid vocabulary ranged widely over many dialects and languages.)
Detailed explanation-2: -In order to reach a local audience, many people wrote in the vernacular, bypassing Latin, the language of the Church. In particular Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch are three Italian poets who truly turned the Tuscan dialect, their vernacular, into the standard Italian literary language (Wilson, 136).
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet and politician most famous for his Divine Comedy (c. 1319) where he descends through Hell, climbs Purgatory, and arrives at the illumination of Paradise. Dante meets many historical characters along the way, including his guide, the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BCE).