![]() His work set a precedent that important Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would later follow.ĭante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and is considered to be among the country's national poets and the Western world's greatest literary icons. By writing his poem in the Italian vernacular rather than in Latin, Dante influenced the course of literary development, making Italian the literary language in western Europe for several centuries. His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and Divine Comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. His De vulgari eloquentia ( On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. ĭante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to educated readers. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. ![]() 1265 – 14 September 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante ( English: / ˈ d ɑː n t eɪ, ˈ d æ n t eɪ, ˈ d æ n t i/, US: / ˈ d ɑː n t i/ ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. ![]() ![]() Statesman, poet, language theorist, political theoristĭante Alighieri ( Italian: c. ![]()
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