How do you square your position with respect to Dante’s general thesis in “De vulgari eloquentia”?
Discussion
probably would have been better to keep using Latin and, in doing so, not set the groundwork for local dialects and their cultural significance to go extinct/merge.
I see the point but I don’t think I agree. I don’t think we can blame The Divine Comedy for being *too* good that it managed to codify or vaunt Florentine dialect into a generally used form of Italian. Nor does he deny the beauty and use cases of other dialects in D.V.E. And the use of a common Italian (as opposed to Latin) allowed for a much greater portion of the populace to have access to the beauty and ideas that inhere in The Divine Comedy. I think of it as Latin = Closed-Source Protocol, whereas Italian = Open-Source Protocol.