ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
True or False:Dante wrote his poem in the vernacular language; this meant that his epic poem was written in Latin and not the everyday language of the people living during his time.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In order to reach a local audience, many people wrote in the vernacular, bypassing Latin, the language of the Church. In particular Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch are three Italian poets who truly turned the Tuscan dialect, their vernacular, into the standard Italian literary language (Wilson, 136).

Detailed explanation-2: -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-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: -Inferno (Italian: [iɱˈfɛrno]; Italian for “Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes Dante’s journey through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.

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