History · 9 · Daughter Zion
Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio
In the fourteenth century, Italy's 'Three Crowns' wrote literature in the vernacular, circulated among notaries in northern Italian towns.
New uses of writing reshape cultures.
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Similarly, northern Israel's scribes after 722 BCE found a new use for texts: not the state's needs, but a story to share among themselves.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 139–140
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