![]() ![]() The first, as explained by Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola, one of the early Italian commentators on the poem, is that the Comedy (composed in Italian rather than Latin) is written in a vernacular language-an assertion that gains support from Dante’s own comments in Book 2 of De vulgari eloquentia, where he defines comedy in terms of style and diction. But there are two reasons Dante calls the poem a comedy. This seems an odd title for most modern readers, who see little humor in the poem. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Februĭante’s crowning achievement, one of the most important works in Western literature and undisputedly the most important poetic text of the European Middle Ages, is the great poem he calls his Comedy, or Commedia (ca. ![]()
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