De vulgari eloquentia is an unfinished project, and so information about its intended structure is limited. Dante interrupted his work at the fourteenth chapter of the second book, and though historians have … 展开

In the beginning, Dante tackles the historical evolution of language, which he thinks was born unitary and, at a later stage, was separated into different idioms because of the presumptuousness demonstrated by … 展开

Dante took inspiration from rhetorical essays written in Latin, Occitan, Sicilian, and Italian, and from philosophical readings. The main classical rhetorical texts from which he drew information were the Ars Poetica by Horace, the Rhetorica ad Herennium by … 展开

• Graham-Leigh, Elaine (2005). The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-129-7.
• Ewert, A. (July 1940). "Dante's Theory of Language". The Modern Language Review. 35 (3): 355–366. 展开

• De vulgari eloquentia on Latin Wikisource.
• De vulgari eloquentia in Latin.
• De Vulgari Eloquentia public domain audiobook at LibriVox 展开