The Influence of Dante On Modern Thought

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" We have as yet all but neglected mentioning one of the chief instruments on which Dante relied for the realisation of his patriotic plans — we allude to the general diffusion of the "vulgar tongue. " l Here, again, we may adduce the 1 Lest any one should feel inclined to dispute Dante's claims to being the first influential poet in the vulgar tongue — and the view might appear to be, to a certain extent, justified, if we consider the Sicilian and later love-poets, especially Guido Guinicelli,... who was the chief precursor of the dolce stil ?iuovo, and to whom Dante himself pays a high tribute in Purg. Xxvi. 97-99 — we again quote a decisive passage from Boccaccio to support our view : " He was the 58 THE INFLUENCE OF DANTE welcome testimony of Mazzini. He says that in the De Vulgari Eloquentia " Dante attacks all the Italian dialects, but it is because he intends to found a language common to all Italy, to create a form worthy of representing the National Idea. " — However, he was impelled to use his native tongue by yet another motive, distinctly modern in spirit, by his " pronta liberalita.

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