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 POLITICAL TREATISE IN LATIN?
A
NEW LIFE
B
CONVIVIAL
C
ON VULGAR SPEECH
D
OF MONARCHY
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Monarchia, often called De Monarchia (Classical Latin: [deː mɔˈnarkʰɪ. aː], Ecclesiastical Latin: [de moˈnarki. a]; “(On) Monarchy"), is a Latin treatise on secular and religious power by Dante Alighieri, who wrote it between 1312 and 1313.

Detailed explanation-2: -Later, in the Convivio, written in Italian, and in De vulgari eloquentia, written in Latin, Dante was to make one of the first great Renaissance defenses of the vernacular.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dante Alighieri The great Italian poet turns his hand to political thought and defends the reign of a single monarch ruling over a universal empire. He believed that peace was only achievable when a single monarch replaced divisive and squabbling princes and kings.

Detailed explanation-4: -Italian poet and scholar Dante Alighieri is best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy), which is universally considered one of world literature’s greatest poems.

Detailed explanation-5: -As Dante explains in book I of the Monarchia, it is necessary that human society and all earthly things be governed by the authority of a single Emperor. All other political authority should be seen as deriving from that of the Emperor, who in turn derives his political authority from God.

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