FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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The Divine Comedy, Celestina and Eloquence in the Vernacular
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The Divine Comedy, Eloquence in the Vernacular and New Life
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The Divine Comedy, New Life and the Altarpiece of Wonders
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Detailed explanation-1: -His De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and Divine Comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language.
Detailed explanation-2: -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).
Detailed explanation-3: -In order to reach a local audience, many people wrote in the vernacular, bypassing Latin, the language of the Church. In particular Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch are three Italian poets who truly turned the Tuscan dialect, their vernacular, into the standard Italian literary language (Wilson, 136).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Divine Comedy was written in the Tuscan dialect of Italian. This dialect eventually became the model for the standard Italian language. Dante’s use of the vernacular language was unusual and innovative since most written material at the time was written in Latin.
Detailed explanation-5: -Dante’s vision of the Afterlife in The Divine Comedy influenced the Renaissance, the Reformation and helped give us the modern world, writes Christian Blauvelt.