De Vulgari Eloquentia is the first work ever in the literature, the problem of language and therefore has a value that goes beyond being a work of Dante. And the most authentic witness to what Dante has felt and suffered from the need to find a single language for Italy, with a dual perspective, as an author and poet who was writing in a language still in training, which was precisely the vulgar, and as an Italian, who wanted to speak to all the citizens of each region of the land he called "the beautiful country where the" yes "noise." Dante conceived the work as a real treat language, feeling the need to establish scientifically the language he had used and was still using in his poetic works, to justify and extend it to all the Italian provinces. We can say that again, the anxiety of the systematic order and had driven to the decision to start writing such a work, which could rightly considered the composition of a work of doctrine in the vernacular as the Convivio. Certainly was reflected in this complex of forces to such an undertaking, a bit 'of ambition, the desire to be present in the disputes of the learned and to gain the prestige that would serve, perhaps, to be readmitted to the country, from the painful exile. The initial plan
four books, of which, however, was composed in 1305 the first and second paragraphs of fourteen, by 1306, so the work is incomplete and not definitive in form, why is not the final revision , but appears very clearly the backbone of Central and basically it is well marked and the general principles.
The two types of language
The author started from the principle that there are two types of language, the language naturalis is learned by children from the mother and the artificialis , called by the Romans grammar is learned by studying. Going back to the origins of the biblical languages \u200b\u200bDante focuses on the episode of confusion of languages \u200b\u200bat the Tower of Babel, to explain the differentiation, from which came the various strains, including those that take hold in Europe, even on this' Last, Dante claims that the tribes who settled here had a language tripharium , ie a triple language, the Germanic, the greek and the novel. As for Latin, as opposed to what he had said in the Vita nova and Convivio, that Latin was the language most noble, in De vulgari eloquentia does not believe, include the native language, because fruit processing logic with a rigid syntactic structure that lends itself only the expression of the most difficult concepts of knowledge. The vernacular is considered, however, the truly noble language, the naturalness and universality. Given this premise, Dante goes on to examine the novel language group on the south of Europe and in three languages: the language of oil , France, the langue d'oc of Provence, the language of yes Italy. The latter in turn is differentiated in dialect fundamental fourteen units, scattered throughout the peninsula, which Dante examine one by one, distinguishing them vertically, are distributed according to the Tyrrhenian coast and the Adriatic.Vernacular
Deepening regional events then the literature and languages \u200b\u200bof our country, albeit in summary fashion, typically in the form dell'excursus historical Dante, Dante sets a literary history in miniature, of the origins, examining the birth of poetic language and its evolution through the various schools, first of all the Sicilian, which explores the nature, showing how the language of poets do not coincide with the reality of Sicilian spoken by middle-class and so that may not be suitable for the vernacular to represent a distinguished and elegant Italian language. Nor can be worthy to do this the language of Puglia, or best of illustrious poets, nor the Tuscan, despite the claim of guittoniani to be able to boast of an illustrious vulgaris, whereas, if you have never known true excellentiam of vulgar, poets as Guido, Lapo, Sino and others (and here he certainly alludes to himself), who had departed from Tuscany. The speech may be the most beautiful in Bologna, but not to the point of becoming the only language, which is valid to represent this illustrious vernacular in which Dante sucks, which is demonstrated by the fact that the major Guinizzelli with poets, and Honest Fabruzzo is are kept away from Bologna.The four characters of the language
Ultimately, Dante did not think really a perfect language that could settle at a table, but the base of a plant that was vulgar: "Illustrious, which is able to give glory to those who utilize, cardinal, because it revolved around all the other vulgar, like the door hinges on key, courtly, as worthy to be spoken and heard in the courts (in Latin meant the court room, or the throne room), and finally because Curia also suitable for a legislative assembly.In the second book, unfinished, Dante draws the lines of poetry, broken down into three styles, or tragic illustrious , appropriate topics for high nell'aristocratico meter of the song, preferably, the average or comic, which include the sonnet and the ballad, the elegiac or humble. The illustrious vernacular is therefore especially suited to the tragic style to address the most challenging issues such as salvation, virtue, love.
The work concludes with an analysis of the song as a basic poetic form and meter dell'endecasillabo as traditional and prestigious. De Vulgari Eloquentia is essentially a difficult and passionate attempt to solve the problem of language, in a unified and definitive, in that its value and the great merit of Dante, who tirelessly any effort, not to be aware that "a pilot who seemed himself did" (Paradiso, XXIII, 69) had embarked in the enterprise, as the first and only intellectual of his time, thus risking the Modern Utopia, if only channel in a unified direction to the various Italian dialects and the language of noble form, yes, counting, and even a search hoping that it was not his alone, but the most egregious of all authors, so that with their excellent contribution to elevate them and make the vulgar .
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