Grammar in Dante occupies one of the two poles of the diglossic paradigm characteristic of the linguistic culture of the Middle Ages. Reflection on grammar is developed creatively from the Vita Nuova to the Commedia, starting from Aristotelian-Thomist con

Abstract

Grammar in Dante occupies one of the two poles of the diglossic paradigm characteristic of the linguistic culture of the Middle Ages. Reflection on grammar is developed creatively from the Vita Nuova to the Commedia, starting from Aristotelian-Thomist concepts and leading to the definitive neutralisation of the diglossia demonstrated especially in the Convivio and the De vulgari. This neutralisation will be theorised in Canto XXVI of the Paradiso