FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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A LINGUISTIC TREATISE ON A LANGUAGE SUITABLE FOR LITERARY WRITING
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AN INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF YOUNG DANTE
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A TREATY OF POLITICS THAT SERVES INSPIRATION FOR THE DIVINE COMEDY
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THE TREATY ON LANGUAGE, WRONGLY ATTRIBUTED TO DANTE
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Detailed explanation-1: -De vulgari eloquentia (Ecclesiastical Latin: [de vulˈgaːri eloˈkwɛntsja]; “On eloquence in the vernacular") is the title of a Latin essay by Dante Alighieri. Although meant to consist of four books, it abruptly terminates in the middle of the second book.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dante wrote the De vulgari eloquentia to defend the value of works written in the vernacular. The treatise is written in Latin, probably in order to lend respectability to its arguments in the eyes of the intellectuals of the day.
Detailed explanation-3: -The vernacular ensures that there is always the possibility of speech and that the space is always open for speaking. The De Vulgari Eloquentia opens the way for us not only to construct such powerful vernacular comments, but it also allows us to question the vernacular of others.
Detailed explanation-4: -Written in 1303-05, when Dante was in political exile from his native Florence, De vulgari eloquentia addresses the problem of how to raise the Italian language to the status of Latin in the esteem of the literate public.