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He distinguishes The Commedia from the later title The Divine Comedy and says Dante's choice of comic-low vernacular Tuscan over high Latin turns Tuscan into the Italian peninsula's official literary language.
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Tuscan
He distinguishes The Commedia from the later title The Divine Comedy and says Dante's choice of comic-low vernacular Tuscan over high Latin turns Tuscan into the Italian peninsula's official literary language.
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He says Dante writes in Tuscan and calls the poem The Commedia partly to avoid the Latin-writing Catholic Church, which would have burned the manuscript if it understood the revolutionary argument.
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"...is very interesting, is, he, he chooses to write it in Tuscan."
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"...he is from. And because The Commedia is so wonderfully produced, Tuscan will become the official language of the Italian peninsula, okay? So, today..."
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"...writing to who is his audience um so he's writing in Tuscan rather than Latin and he calls it the Commedia so I think..."
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"...low, okay? Which meant comedy. And so he wrote it in Tuscan, which is the language of Florence, where he lived. Latin was the..."
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"...low, okay? Which meant comedy. And so he wrote it in Tuscan, which is the language of Florence, where he lived. Latin was the..."
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"...the language of the educated elite but in the vernacular in Tuscan so that ordinary people could access it. And by doing so he..."
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"...in europe at the time he purposely chose to write in tuscan which is a local language and because he did that he made..."
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"...um um because of translation issues this again was written in Tuscan I've tried I tried to avoid a close reading okay uh because..."
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