FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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The historical evolution of language
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The language of different literary genres
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The difference between grammar and language
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -De vulgari eloquentia (Ecclesiastical Latin: [de vulˈgaːri eloˈkwɛntsja]; “On eloquence in the vernacular") is the title of a Latin essay by Dante Alighieri. Although meant to consist of four books, it abruptly terminates in the middle of the second book.
Detailed explanation-2: -Written in 1303-05, when Dante was in political exile from his native Florence, De vulgari eloquentia addresses the problem of how to raise the Italian language to the status of Latin in the esteem of the literate public.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante wrote the De vulgari eloquentia (On the eloquence of the vernacular) sometime during the years 1304-1307, more than ten years after the Vita nuova. Written in Latin, the treatise is a defense of poetry in the vernacular (Italian) language.
Detailed explanation-4: -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).