Florentine Became the Standard Form of Modern Italian Language

question 23

Multiple Choice

Florentine became the standard form of modern Italian language:

• A) as Italian humanists never wrote their literary works in Latin.
• B) with the popularization of the dialect through literary texts like Dante's Divine Comedy.
• C) as Italian humanists rejected the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome.
• D) because Petrarch condemned the use of Florentine as a written language.

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