ENG150Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Tercet, Petrarch, Simile
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11/23/2015: finished shortly before dante"s death in 1321 (14th century ce, written in vernacular (language people speak to one another), i. e. italian. (dante chose this over latin) decision to favour local over transnational, i. e. latin. Dante wrote an earlier work defending use of vernacular in literary works: line-by-line commentaries began immediately and continue. First distinctly european literary text to be subjected to such commentary: considered one of the if not the greatest works of european literature, medieval yet in a sense inaugurates a modern era of vernacular literature. Literary artists of major western european nation-states eventually follow suit. In italy, followed by petrarch, who also writes in italian. Classical and christian literature are to some extent integrated yet the divine comedy is predominantly christian: christian biblical exegesis develops a fourfold system of interpretation, the first two being the literal and allegorical , allegory as extended metaphor.
