Literature of the world : an introductory study . l. Dante tells us that in The Banquet heis to serve to us the crumbs of learning he has picked up. The workwas also intended to clear his name from certain imputations whichhad arisen because of his earlier MTiting. The Banquet, like theNew Life, is in Italian. Only four sections were produced, andthese were completed in 1306 or 1308. His next writing was aLatin treatise, De Vulgari Eloquentia. In this Dante explainsthat the Italian language is splendidly adapted to prose and poetryalike and well suited to the worthiest subjects. He also gives
Literature of the world : an introductory study . l. Dante tells us that in The Banquet heis to serve to us the crumbs of learning he has picked up. The workwas also intended to clear his name from certain imputations whichhad arisen because of his earlier MTiting. The Banquet, like theNew Life, is in Italian. Only four sections were produced, andthese were completed in 1306 or 1308. His next writing was aLatin treatise, De Vulgari Eloquentia. In this Dante explainsthat the Italian language is splendidly adapted to prose and poetryalike and well suited to the worthiest subjects. He also gives aminute description of the Italian poetic forms. This treatise, be-gun in 1304, was never finished. De Monarchia, also in Latin,written between 1310 and 1314, expresses Dantes political was an idealist in politics, as in love. The Empire was to him apower supreme over the earthly interests of mankind, in the samemanner as the Church was supreme in the field of the spirit. in De INIonarchia that universal empire is necessary,. dantes tomb 144 LITERATURE OF THE WORLD thai il was by Gods will that the Romans secured their authority,and that this authority is in fact derived from God himself. The Divine Comedy was the central interest of Dantes fortunately lived to complete it. The Middle Ages stand re-vealed in this magnificent work. Dante called it a comedy becauseof its fortunate ending ; the world has called it divine because of itsspiritual theme. The journey so marvelously described by Dantewas taken, as he tells us, when he had reached the summit of thearch of life,—namely, during his thirty-fifth year,—and an evenmore defmite reference places its beginning on the night beforeGood Friday of the year 1300. The three divisions, or canticles,refer to the poets experiences in three worlds—Hell, Purgatory,and Paradise. About live days are consumed in the entire canticle ends with the words the stars and each containsthirty-three div
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