<Tr> <Th> Period </Th> <Td> Late Middle Ages </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Literary movement </Th> <Td> Dolce Stil Novo </Td> </Tr> <P> Durante degli Alighieri (Italian: (duˈrante deʎʎ aliˈɡjɛːri)), commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (Italian: (ˈdante), UK: / ˈdænti /, US: / ˈdɑːnteɪ /; c. 1265--1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages . His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language . </P> <P> In the late Middle Ages, most poetry was written in Latin, accessible only to the most educated readers . In De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular), however, Dante defended use of the vernacular in literature . He would even write in the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life (1295) and the Divine Comedy; this highly unorthodox choice set a precedent that important later Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would follow . </P>

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