ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Epithet-“Great connoisseur of sin” (V. 37). This is referring to Minos, the king of Crete, who created a monster called the Minotaur, who attacked people in the Labyrinth near Minos’ palace.

Detailed explanation-2: -In discussions of Italian literature, Dante is usually grouped with his close contemporaries Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 1375) and Francesco Petrarca (1304 – 1374). Together, they are commonly referred to as the tre corone or Three Crowns, with Dante placed above the other two as Il sommo poeta: the Supreme Poet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dante is considered the greatest Italian poet, best known for The Divine Comedy, an epic poem that is one of the world’s most important works of literature. The poem, which is divided into three sections, follows a man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, as he visits Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.

Detailed explanation-4: -The adjective Divina was added by Giovanni Boccaccio, owing to its subject matter and lofty style, and the first edition to name the poem Divina Comedia in the title was that of the Venetian humanist Lodovico Dolce, published in 1555 by Gabriele Giolito de’ Ferrari.