{"id":4255,"date":"2021-09-13T23:17:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T23:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danteinlinea.com\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2023-09-26T22:08:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T22:08:51","slug":"who-was-dante-alighieri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danteinlinea.com\/blog\/en\/who-was-dante-alighieri\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Dante Alighieri?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Who was Dante Alighieri? is a national icon in Italy and world Dante Alighieri probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to simply<\/a> <\/strong>as Dante, was an Italian <\/strong><\/a>poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. His Divine Comedy<\/strong><\/a>, originally called Comed\u00eca (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio<\/strong><\/a>, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages<\/strong><\/a> and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular<\/strong><\/a> in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin<\/strong><\/a>, which was accessible only to the most educated readers. His De vulgari eloquentia<\/strong><\/a> (On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Tuscan dialect<\/a> for works such as The New Life<\/a> (1295) and Divine Comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. His work set a precedent that important Italian writers such as Petrarch<\/a> and Boccaccio<\/a> would later follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy. His depictions of Hell<\/a>, Purgatory<\/a> and Heaven<\/a> provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art<\/a> and literature. He is described as the \u00abfather\u00bb of the Italian language, and in Italy he is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta (\u00abthe Supreme Poet\u00bb). Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called the tre corone (\u00abthree crowns\u00bb) of Italian literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dante is to Italy what Shakespeare is to the English, what Cervantes is to the Spanish and what Goethe is to the Germans, but maybe he is also something more<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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