Western Civilization I / Unit 13 WC1 1230 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Vernacular and Latin: Two Languages of the Renaissance
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The idea
Dante wrote Tuscan and Petrarch classical Latin, and the Renaissance ran on both: Latin for scholarship and the recovered ancients, the vernacular for Dante, Boccaccio's Decameron and, north of the Alps later, Cervantes and Shakespeare, the witness's names.
In practice
Print standardized the vernaculars.
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The vernacular writers of unit 12 and 17 sit on this line.
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