ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In the nineteenth century, scholars began considering and studying dolce stil novo as a “school” of poetry. Scholars, to differentiate Dante’s use of the term to Purgatorio to the literary movement, called the movement stil nuovo.

Detailed explanation-2: -dolce stil nuovo, (Italian: “sweet new style”), nuovo also spelled Novo, the style of a group of 13th–14th-century Italian poets, mostly Florentines, whose vernacular sonnets, canzones, and ballate celebrate a spiritual and idealized view of love and womanhood in a way that is sincere, delicate, and musical.

Detailed explanation-3: -The epic describes Dante’s imagined journey through Hell and Purgatory to Heaven. Inferno, the most popular and widely studied section of The Divine Comedy, recounts Dante’s travels through the different regions of Hell, led by his mentor and protector, the Roman poet Virgil.

Detailed explanation-4: -He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy). Dante’s Divine Comedy, a landmark in Italian literature and among the greatest works of all medieval European literature, is a profound Christian vision of humankind’s temporal and eternal destiny.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is certainly the most famous poet of that time but other important artists lived in the XIII century, as the two dolce-stil-nuovo poets Lapo Gianni and Guido Cavalcanti. In one of his first works, the Vita Nuova-or New Life-, Dante describes his love for Beatrice.