试论但丁的俗语写作及其历史影响

Dante’s Colloquial Writing and Its Historical Influence

中世纪晚期,西欧出现了民族意识的觉醒,人们开始以各自的方言表达他们的民族国家观念。在这种背景之下,但丁也尝试着运用俗语写作,并且为俗语做辩护,认为俗语不俗,希望通过这种写作方式来形成意大利自己的民族语言,并培养意大利同胞的民族意识。但丁的这种写作方式招到同时代人的批评与不解,但是历史证明,但丁此举为意大利民族寻找到了一个新的精神家园。

In the late middle ages, the awakening of national consciousness appeared in Western Europe. People began to express their ideas of nation-state in their own dialects. In this context, Dante also tried to use colloquial writing and defended the colloquialism, saying that the colloquialism was not vulgar, hoping to form Italy’s own national language and cultivate the national consciousness of Italian compatriots through this way. Dante’s writing method attracted criticism and incomprehension from his contemporaries, but history proves that Dante’s writing style found a new spiritual home for the Italian nation.