FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
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English
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Latin
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Italian
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Tuscan
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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: -Dante’s masterwork is a 3 volume work written in Italian rather than Latin. It embraces human individuality and happiness in a way which suggests the beginning of the Renaissance.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante is an Italian given name and surname.
Detailed explanation-4: -Though Dante’s Inferno was written in a vernacular Italian dialect, some of Dante’s early readers translated the poem into Latin because they thought Latin would better preserve it for posterity.