FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Because it creates the Italian literary language.
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Because that way they could later translate it into other languages.
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Because he benefited politically from it.
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Because he can use rhymes that wouldn’t have worked in Latin.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He wrote the Comedy in a language he called “Italian", in some sense an amalgamated literary language mostly based on the regional dialect of Tuscany, but with some elements of Latin and other regional dialects. He deliberately aimed to reach a readership throughout Italy including laymen, clergymen and other poets.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why did Dante write in Italian instead of Latin? He thought it was just as good as Latin since it was the people’s language.
Detailed explanation-3: -By choosing to write his poem in the Italian vernacular rather than in Latin, Dante decisively influenced the course of literary development. (He primarily used the Tuscan dialect, which would become standard literary Italian, but his vivid vocabulary ranged widely over many dialects and languages.)
Detailed explanation-4: -For Dante as poet, language is the medium in which his art is expressed; for Dante as philosopher, language is itself an object of study. Dante was a master of his art, which implies he had a theoretical knowledge of it; he also had a practical understanding of human nature, character, and the emotions.