Middle Ages.

For those of you who were listening to me last year, you will remember that I flagged language as one of the key areas.

But why? Dante set out to compose his great poem, a poem that we should remember he wanted to be on a par with the great works of literature available to him, Virgil's Reputation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

In short, the classical tradition.

And therefore, This aim should have had a language worthy of rising to that particular cause.

Now, anyone who was intent on writing a serious piece of literature would naturally write it in literary Latin, as those before him had already done.

But not Dante.

kind of thing.