ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why is the Divine Comedy an outstanding work? (Multiple answers)
A
Because he created the Italian literary language.
B
Because it was very popular.
C
He describes the perception of the age in detail, we can get to know his knowledge (encyclopedic).
D
Because this is the last work in which the unified medieval worldview is revealed.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Divine Comedy is a fulcrum in Western history. It brings together literary and theological expression, pagan and Christian, that came before it while also containing the DNA of the modern world to come. It may not hold the meaning of life, but it is Western literature’s very own theory of everything.

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: -Italian writer Dante Alighieri influenced the Renaissance because of his most famous work The Divine Comedy. This worked signified the conclusion of the Middle Ages and the rise of Renaissance Humanism/Classical Humanism. This study consisted of the fact that all humans are rational beings.

Detailed explanation-4: -The poem’s bold intermixture of realities, from the sublime to the vile, is part of what makes it so modern. Much of The Divine Comedy is composed in the Italian vernacular which Dante regarded as the true and richly storied expression of the Italian people.

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