FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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He wrote many works.
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He made the literary vernacular famous.
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He was a well-known figure in Italian politics.
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It was against the black Guelphs.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why is Dante significant? 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-2: -In order to reach a wider audience, Dante chose to write the Divine Comedy in vernacular Italian instead of Latin (his overthrow of Latin preceded Geoffrey Chaucer’s by 80 years).
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Contents. The De vulgari eloquentia was also written in exile during the period 1304-7. It is a treatise on the nature of poetry in the vernacular i.e. in languages other than Latin, and specifically about poetry in the Italian vernacular.
Detailed explanation-5: -With the help of such language, Dante and Chaucer made their works more understandable to the public and reflected their ideas in traditional everyday speech. They both were connected to the economic sphere of life of their countries.