Dante, De vulgari eloquentia /

De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration...

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Main Author: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 (Author)
Other Authors: Botterill, Steven (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Latin
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Series:Cambridge medieval classics ; 5.
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