FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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the superiority of the Sicilian over the other vernaculars is due to the undisputed cultural superiority of Federico II and his son Manfredi, who attracted prestigious intellectuals to their court.
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the superiority of the Sicilian is due to the undisputed prestige of the court of Frederick II and his son Manfredi, who attracted poets of such value to their court.
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the superiority of the Sicilian over the other vernaculars is due to the undisputed moral superiority of Federico II and his son Manfredi, who attracted prestigious intellectuals to their court due to their moral qualities.
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the superiority of the Sicilian is due to the authority of Frederick II and his son Manfredi who were able to attract the best poets and functionaries of the time to their court.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The plot of The Divine Comedy is simple: a man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultramundane journey, which leads him to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
Detailed explanation-2: -His moral system prioritizes not human happiness or harmony on Earth but rather God’s will in Heaven. Dante thus considers violence less evil than fraud: of these two sins, fraud constitutes the greater opposition to God’s will.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante’s Inferno serves as a symbolic allegory of Dante acknowledging his own sin. Through engaging in cruelty towards fellow sinners, including those who have personally harmed him, and through being scolded for compassion for sinners, even for his own relatives, Dante grows to understand the foibles of human nature.
Detailed explanation-4: -In order to reach a wider audience, Dante chose to write the Divine Comedy in vernacular Italian instead of Latin (his overthrow of Latin preceded Geoffrey Chaucer’s by 80 years). Dante’s modernity lies in the “sweet new style” of Italian (dolce stil novo) in which he composed.