For What Is Dante's Divine Comedy Best Known

question 53

Multiple Choice

For what is Dante's Divine Comedy best known?

• A)It is considered a synthesis of medieval Christian thought.
• B)It was one of the last fourteenth-century works to be written in Latin.
• C)It lashed out at the "barbarity" of the classical tradition.
• D)It attacked the science of Aristotle, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the Catholic church.
• E)It was the greatest prose work of the early Renaissance.

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