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De Vulgari Eloquentia
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by Dante Alighieri
Cambridge University Press
Due/Published
October 1996, 135 pages,
cloth
ISBN
0521400643
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. Steven Botterill here offers the only Latin-English parallel-text edition of an important early work by the author of the Divine Comedy, and the only English translation with thorough and up-to-date notes and introductory material. |
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