Dante: De Vulgari Eloquentia

Informationen zum Autor Durante degli Alighieri (1265 - 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In the late Middle Ages, the overwhelming majority of poetry was written in Latin and therefore accessible only to affluent and educated audiences. In De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular), however, Dante defended use of the vernacular in literature. He himself would even write in the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and the aforementioned Divine Comedy; this choice, although highly unorthodox, set a hugely important precedent that later Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow. As a result, Dante played an instrumental role in establishing the national language of Italy. Klappentext The first Latin-English text of Dante's treatise on language, together with notes and introduction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Select bibliography; A note on the text; De vulgari eloquentia Book I, Book II; Explanatory notes; Index.

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• Authors: Dante Alighieri, Dante, Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri
• Assisted by: Steven Botterill (Editor), Steven Botterill (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2005
• EAN: 9780521409230
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40923-0
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 9 mm
• Series: Cambridge Medieval Classics; Cambridge Medieval Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies