How Did The Tascan Influence Dante's Inferno

Dante Alighieri’s Inferno was one of the first major works in what would later be known as standard, Tuscan Italian. While the Inferno was important, it was not the first, sole nor main cause of the rise of Tuscan Italian. Many authors both before and after the time of Dante were just as, if not more, influential in the rise of the Tuscan Italian dialect as Dante Alighieri’s work. Although influential in ending the Latin language’s monopoly of written language in Italy and extending the influence of the Tuscan dialect, Dante’s Inferno was preceded by the common use of “vulgar latin” in both conversation and writing. Latin had united the Roman Empire, but after the fall of the Roman Empire Latin gradually started to loose it’s importance. …show more content…
Torquato Tasso, an Italian poet, was popular throughout Europe; he was so popular that Pope Clement VIII proposed to crown him the king of the poets. Tasso was a prominent poet throughout Europe, so his works helped to spread Italian in not only Italy, but throughout the surrounding countries. His work was widely accepted by, arguably, the most important man in Europe at the time, the Pope. The popularity and prevalence of authors other than Dante using Italian did much to spread the use of the Tuscan dialect, and caused it to be accepted as the standard dialect in …show more content…
In order to standardize Italian and make it easy for many to write, a written work had to be used in order to teach non-native Tuscan Italian speakers to speak, read and write the language. Petrarch, a Tuscan Italian, wrote many epic poems in the Tuscan Italian vernacular. His work was then used to standardize written Italian. The grammar and vocabulary of Petrarch was written down and studied by scholars and children that were attempting to learn Italian. Petrarch’s work allowed people to learn to speak and write Tuscan Italian and therefore was an essential part of the rise of the Italian