De vulgari eloquentia (Ecclesiastical Latin: [de vulˈɡari eloˈkwentsi.a], Italian: [de vulˈɡaːri eloˈkwɛntsja]; "On eloquence in the vernacular ") is the title of a Latin essay by Dante Alighieri.

Unfinished treatise on and defense of the use of vernacular in poems in the high (or 'tragic') style, ca.1304. Testo critico della Società Dantesca Italiana ...

…makes this distinction in his De vulgari eloquentia (1304–05; “Of Eloquence in the Vulgar”) in which he also declares the subjects fit for the high, tragic style to be salvation, love, and virtue.

Dante wrote the De vulgari eloquentia (On the eloquence of the vernacular) sometime during the years 1304-1307, more than ten years after the Vita nuova. Written in Latin, the treatise is a …

Book 1 I. Since I find that no one, before myself, has dealt in any way with the theory of eloquence in the vernacular, and since we can plainly see that such eloquence is necessary to everyone - …

Dante's De Vulgari Eloquentia is a treatise written in the early 14th century that discusses the use of the vernacular language in literature, arguing for its legitimacy and importance alongside Latin.

Quam multis varietatibus latio dissonante vulgari, decentiorem atque illustrem Ytalie venemur loquelam; et ut nostre venationi pervium callem habere possimus, perplexos frutices atque …

It is an ideal resource for those approaching De Vulgari Eloquentia for the first time as it offers a select bibliography, an index for the proper names that appear in the text and a basic set of …

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 practicing poet, and the …

Apr 17, 2022 · This work by the author of the Divine Comedy is groundbreaking for a number of reasons. To begin, De Vulgari introduces a theory of rhetoric, one of only a handful of such …