On Eloquence in the Vernacular (De vulgari eloquentia)

Name: On Eloquence in the Vernacular (De vulgari eloquentia)
Author: Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

This book is in Latin.

Dante’s unfinished Latin treatise on the vernacular (c. 1303-1305): Book I on the origin of languages and the search for the illustrious vernacular through the dialects of Italy (19 chapters); Book II on the art of the canzone and the tragic style (14 chapters, breaking off mid-argument). The Latin text is the one on The Latin Library (Società Dantesca Italiana tradition).

Source: Both books with chapter and paragraph numbers (I 19 chapters, II 14). Navigation and footer dropped. The English of A. G. Ferrers Howell (Temple Classics, 1904) is OCR only and is not imported.