[DOC] [TLE] Dante Alighieri - Wikipedia [PAR] Durante degli Alighieri simply called Dante was a major Italian poet of the Late 
Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comeda (modern Italian: 
Commedia) and later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the 
greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a .... Dante said he 
first met Beatrice Portinari, daughter of Folco Portinari, at age... [DOC] [TLE] Divine Comedy - Wikipedia [PAR] The Divine Comedy is an epic poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and 
completed 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the 
preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of 
world literature. ... Written in the first person, the poem tells of Dante's journey 
through the three... [DOC] [TLE] Dante - Philosopher, Scholar, Poet - Biography.com [PAR] Jan 28, 2015 ... Synopsis; Early Years; Exile; The Divine Comedy; Legacy ... Dante is seen as the 
father of modern Italian, and his works have flourished since ... every spoken 
dialect in order to establish Italian as a serious literary language. ... Around this 
time, he began writing his most famous work, The Divine Comedy. [DOC] [TLE] Dante | Italian poet | Britannica.com [PAR] Oct 12, 2015 ... Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political ... of 
contemporary problems, and its inventiveness of language and imagery. By 
choosing to write his poem in the Italian vernacular rather than in Latin, Dante ... 
De monarchia, one of the major tracts of medieval political philosophy. [DOC] [TLE] Dante Alighieri, Poet, Spiritual Writer - Society of Archbishop Justus [PAR] Dante Alighieri is beyond doubt the greatest of Italian poets, and, many readers ... 
T S Eliot said: "Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. 
... an argument for writing poems and other works in the language that people 
speak (in ... First, in the upper circles of Hell we see sins of Incontinence, of lack 
of... [DOC] [TLE] Dante Alighieri - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Jul 8, 2016 ... His greatest work, the epic poem The Divine Comedy, is considered the ... poetry; 
he is also considered to be the father of the modern Italian language itself. ... 
language would emerge, Dante was by no means alone in writing ..... Dante is 
the first major poet to write an epic in the Christian tradition, and in so... [DOC] [TLE] Dante Alighieri facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] Dante may be considered the greatest and last medieval poet, at least in Italy, 
where ... The Vita nuova, written between 1292 and 1294, is one of the first 
important ... company he soon abandoned and later through his writinghe was 
never to ... vernacular, Dante intended to treat of all aspects of the spoken 
language, from... [DOC] [TLE] Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts: The Poet [PAR] Dante Alighieri is considered the greatest Italian poet and one of the greatest of ... 
and was a major exponent of a new style of writing, the Dolce Stil Nuovo. ... first 
European language to emerge from Latin in close proximity to its modern form. [DOC] [TLE] ITALIAN VERNACULAR LITERATURE [PAR] During the Middle Ages, the language of learning had been Latin, but alongside 
this ... Literary works in the vernacular came into being from an early date: 
Beowulf ... By the second half of the thirteenth century the most important Italian 
writing was ... Dante's greatest work, the Divine Comedy @, remains the greatest 
work of... [DOC] [TLE] Why is The Divine Comedy by Dante so famous? - Quora [PAR] Why it's important? The 10 Greatest Works of Christian Fiction - Listverse
description covers this ... Dante Alighieri (author) ... The Divine Comedy is the 
finest work in the Italian language, which is saying a lot. ... Dante's Divina 
Commedia was the first major work for a serious topic in a vernacular .... Written 
Jun 7, 2013. [DOC] [TLE] Dante's Inferno: Critical Reception and Influence - Division of ... [PAR] W. S. Merwin,

Question: Dante was the first major writer to write in this modern language
Answer: Italian