ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WORKS BY DANTE CONSISTS OF A COLLECTION OF PROSE AND POEMS IN THE FLORENTINE VERNATURE?
A
NEW LIFE
B
CONVIVIAL
C
ON VULGAR SPEECH
D
OF MONARCHY
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -La Vita Nuova contains 42 brief chapters (31 for Guglielmo Gorni) with commentaries on 25 sonnets, one ballata, and four canzoni; one canzone is left unfinished, interrupted by the death of Beatrice Portinari, Dante’s lifelong love.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Inferno: A Literal Prose Translation, With The Text Of The Original Collated From The Best Editions, And Explanatory Notes (1849)

Detailed explanation-4: -The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia Italian pronunciation: [diˈviːna komˈmɛːdja]) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author’s death.

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