ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Dante Alighieri is the representative poet of Christian culture in ____ His conception of the world is based on ____
A
the revival-of classical paganism
B
the feudal age-the idealized love of Beatriz
C
the Middle Ages-scholastic theology
D
the pre-renaissance-the negation of Greco-Roman culture
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Italian poet and scholar Dante Alighieri is best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy), which is universally considered one of world literature’s greatest poems.

Detailed explanation-2: -He is described as the “father” of the Italian language, and in Italy he is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet"). Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called the tre corone ("three crowns") of Italian literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dante is considered the greatest Italian poet, best known for The Divine Comedy, an epic poem that is one of the world’s most important works of literature.

Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout the Inferno, Dante expresses his strict belief that Christianity is the one true religion. Admission to heaven, purgatory, and usually even hell is predicated on one’s belief in Jesus’ divinity. Ignorance of Jesus’ existence, Dante asserts, is no excuse for non-belief.

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