FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
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He translated the work into Latin
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It gave the adjective Divine to “Comedy”
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Wrote the novel’s prologue
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313–d. 1375) is generally considered the father of Italian prose because of his masterpiece, the Decameron, which had a major shaping effect on the development of the frame-tale narrative both in Italy and in the rest of Europe in subsequent centuries.
Detailed explanation-2: -Boccaccio was acutely aware of his position as mediator between different cultures-classical and medieval; Italian, French, and Latin; and Christian and pagan-and thus he stands as an important figure in the development of a European humanist literary culture that defines the Renaissance and beyond.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante began writing the Divine Comedy only after his expulsion from Florence, and it is as much an attempt to make sense of his estrangement from home (and his anger over the situation) as it is a spiritual journey to understand God.
Detailed explanation-4: -The purpose of Dante’s Divine Comedy was to show people the horrors their souls would go through if they did not obey God’s laws, and did not live their lives righteously. There is a lot of symbolism in connection with numbers throughout the novel. The number three is one of the most common and important ones.