De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the
fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary
theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to
assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages
over Latin. Its opening consideration of language as a sign-system
includes foreshadowings of twentieth-century semiotics, and later
sections contain the first serious effort at literary criticism
based on close analytical reading since the classical era. Steven
Botterill here offers an accurate Latin text and a readable English
translation of the treatise, together with notes and introductory
material, thus making available a work which is relevant not only
to Dante's poetry and the history of Italian literature, but to our
whole understanding of late medieval poetics, linguistics, and
literary practice.
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