MULT10015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Italian Literature, Diglossia, Early Modern Europe
25 Jul 2018
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Build tower and god punishes them, and scatters humans and gives different languages to them. Universal language allowed something that was not allowed- building a tower into the heavens. Homogenous, not heterogeneous: dante alighieri (1265-1321) Wrote the divine comedy, one of the most famous and important books ever written. Canonical as example of italiano volgare, unifying agent for italian language. Theorises about the language that he uses. Why a new language can be considered equal to latin. On the eloquence of vernaculars = the first language spoken by adam and eve is forgotten so men have to recreate the original language through the plurality of languages. Mankind has lost the natural language given to us by god and variety is the punishment inflicted to humans. As many as were the varieties of activities involved in the enterprise, so many were the languages in which the human race is now divided.
