Epistolae, the letters of Dante

Description

This book consists of 13 letters written by Dante Alighieri in the Latin language translated in English, covering the well known and intriguing letter to his supporter Cangrande della Scala. The letters specify a noble share of framework for the audiences of the poet on the subjects of his economical and logical thoughts. In his last letter, the genuineness of which has been vehemently opposed by intellectuals, the poet grants the Paradiso to the Veronese Cangrande, explicates the title of his Divine Comedy, previously, Comedy, and narrates most of its subject matters.

Durante degli Alighieri, commonly referred to as Dante was one of the most important Italian poet of the later years of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, formerly titled Comedìa in modern Italian, Commedia, and later termed Divina by Boccaccio, is largely measured as the best literary composition in the Italian language and a stunning success of global literature. It has been denoted as the best poem of the Middle Ages.

In the later years of the Middle Ages, the tremendous greatest part of poetry was composed in Latin, and affable only to, well off and knowledgeable readers. In De vulgari eloquentia or On Eloquence in the Vernacular, he challenged the practice of the vernacular in literature. He would also create in the Tuscan vernacular for writings as The New Life in 1295 and the said Divine Comedy. This selection, though greatly heretical, placed a widely significant instance that future Italian authors like Petrarch and Boccaccio would go after. He played an important role in constructing the national language of Italy.

Alighieri has been signified as the Father of the Italian language. He is usually regarded as il Sommo Poeta or the Supreme Poet and il Poeta. He, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also referred to as the three fountains or the three crowns.
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