FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Rhetoric and grammar
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Mathematics and geometry
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Music and singing
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Italian and German
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Detailed explanation-1: -In his youth, Dante studied many subjects, including Tuscan poetry, painting, and music. He encountered both the Occitan poetry of the troubadours and the Latin poetry of classical antiquity, including Homer and Virgil. He read Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae and Cicero’s De amicitia.
Detailed explanation-2: -For Dante as poet, language is the medium in which his art is expressed; for Dante as philosopher, language is itself an object of study. Dante was a master of his art, which implies he had a theoretical knowledge of it; he also had a practical understanding of human nature, character, and the emotions.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Sin, Justice, Pity and Piety. As it narrates a journey through hell, Dante’s Inferno is essentially a tour of all kinds of different punishments for different sins. Paganism vs. Christianity. Individual Fame. This World vs. Language. Love. 20-Nov-2013