Dante's Divine Comedy

question 45

Multiple Choice

Dante's Divine Comedy

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

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