Dante, moving to various centers sympathetic to…
1307 CE
Dante, moving to various centers sympathetic to the Ghibelline cause, has begun to produce a steady stream of literary work.
In his unfinished Convivio (“The Banquet”), written around 1304-07, the poet, apparently immersing himself in the pagan philosophers and cultivation of the Roman tradition, expatiates on his earlier love poetry.
In his pioneering study of linguistics and style, De vulgari eloquentia (“On the Vulgar Speech”), written around 1304-06 in Latin, Dante argues for the use of the vernacular in serious works of literature and for combining a number of Italian dialects to create a new national language.