![]() ![]() Thanks to his remarkable achievement – for which he is properly recognized as the «father of Italian language» – his Divine Comedy is the only medieval masterpiece which is still readable in the original version, without translation. Dante modeled the Italian language adapting it to the needs of literary writing, thus heavily influencing formation of the Italian language as it is spoken today. Italy owes Dante Alighieri for his ingenious choice of adopting the Italian vernacular at a time when Latin was still the standard for literary work. «The work of Dante – stated renowned scholar Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) – is the attempt of synthesizing the whole universal reality in a both poetical and systemic way» (Figures, 1939). Universally known as one the greatest poets of all eras and schools of literature, Dante Alighieri left us the highest testament to Western Middle Age civilization, to which the modern era is deeply indebted. Dante Alighieri, Father of the Modern Italian Language ![]() ![]() The Casa di Dante's incunabulum of the Divine Comedy is one-of-a-kind and is truly one of the best editions ever produced of Dante Alighieri's defining work. ![]()
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