ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In which text did Dante introduce the “dolce stil novo” technique?
A
The Convivio
B
Vita Nuova
C
De Vulgari Eloquentia
D
Eclogues
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The name Dolce Stil Novo was used for the first time by Dante Alighieri in Purgatorio, the second canticle of the Divina Commedia.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Vita Nuova is a work of Italian literature, written in alternating prose and verse, composed in the late 1290s by Dante (1265-1321).

Detailed explanation-3: -La Vita Nuova contains 42 brief chapters (31 for Guglielmo Gorni) with commentaries on 25 sonnets, one ballata, and four canzoni; one canzone is left unfinished, interrupted by the death of Beatrice Portinari, Dante’s lifelong love.

Detailed explanation-4: -La vita nuova, (Italian: “The New Life”) work written about 1293 by Dante regarding his feelings for Beatrice, who comes to represent for Dante the ideal woman.

Detailed explanation-5: -dolce stil nuovo, (Italian: “sweet new style”), nuovo also spelled Novo, the style of a group of 13th–14th-century Italian poets, mostly Florentines, whose vernacular sonnets, canzones, and ballate celebrate a spiritual and idealized view of love and womanhood in a way that is sincere, delicate, and musical.

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