ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
DANTE’S LATIN WORKS ARE:
A
RHYME AND NOVA LIFE
B
ON VULGAR SPEECH OF MONARCHY
C
MONARCHY AND THE NOVA LIFE
D
ON VULGAR SPEECH FROM THE COMMUNITY
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The great Italian poet turns his hand to political thought and defends the reign of a single monarch ruling over a universal empire. He believed that peace was only achievable when a single monarch replaced divisive and squabbling princes and kings.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dante thus argues that the Holy Roman Emperor should be the overarching political authority, and that his authority is conferred directly by God, and not by the ecclesiastical power of the pope.

Detailed explanation-3: -Later, in the Convivio, written in Italian, and in De vulgari eloquentia, written in Latin, Dante was to make one of the first great Renaissance defenses of the vernacular.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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