Glossary
Raised by a student as part of why Dante's work could circulate beyond elite or local audiences.
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vernacular
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...documenting this conversation and leaving this work in, for example, in vernacular so that more people are."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...documenting this conversation and leaving this work in, for example, in vernacular so that more people are."
Key Notes
Glossary
The spoken local language; Dante's choice of Tuscan over Latin is treated as a democratizing move that makes the Divine Comedy accessible.
prediction
A student speculates that Dante may have somehow seen this future audience on his journey and points to his decision to write in the vernacular as part of why the work could travel to more people.
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Creative civilizations require egalitarian knowledge flow: Greece's alphabet and the Renaissance's vernacular shift both democratize learning and expression.
diagnosis
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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"...documenting this conversation and leaving this work in, for example, in vernacular so that more people are."
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"...supported by the fact that they transitioned from latin to the vernacular the spoken language it was dante who allowed this transition to happen..."
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"to write in latin even though latin was the official language of the intellectual class in europe at the time he purposely chose to..."
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"...it deals with ordinary people and written in, in a common vernacular. At this, at this period in European history, this is the year..."
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"And this is the, of course, the local language of Florence, where he is from. And because The Commedia is so wonderfully produced, Tuscan..."
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"...go to church, the priest doesn't speak in your language, the vernacular. It speaks in Latin. And we don't really understand the language, okay?..."
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"was the language of the educated elite but in the vernacular in Tuscan so that ordinary people could access it. And by doing so..."
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"...And so he himself, translated the Bible from Latin into the vernacular, into English so that ordinary people can read it, okay?"
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