FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Most professional scribes found it difficult to write in Medieval Latin.
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The spoken language tended to take precedence in areas where the Church was weak.
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Official documents were written in spoken language.
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is a. The Renaissance triggered the rise of vernacular literature that reflected the everyday life of the period.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Italian poet Dante Alighieri, in his De vulgari eloquentia, was possibly the first European writer to argue cogently for the promotion of literature in the vernacular.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vernacular language eventually became the preferred language used to produce books because it was understood by a much greater portion of the general population than languages such as Latin. As such, it made the books more accessible to the general populace and brought more sales to publishers and writers.
Detailed explanation-4: -Troubadour poetry and the Heroic Poem were popular forms of vernacular literature.
Detailed explanation-5: -Italian poet Dante Alighieri was a pioneer in this regard, writing his epic Divine Comedy in Italian rather than Latin in the 1300s. The British writer Geoffrey Chaucer, later that century, composed his works in Middle English, the dominant language of his time.