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What was Dante Alighieri's reasoning for writing the Divine Comedy in the vernacular?
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What was Dante Alighieri's reasoning for writing the Divine Comedy in the vernacular?

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In order to reach a wider audience, Dante chose to write the Divine Comedy in vernacular Italian instead of Latin (his overthrow of Latin preceded Geoffrey Chaucer's by 80 years).

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