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Dante's 'Divine Comedy' features 8 verses written in Occitan, while the rest is in Italian. Today, Occitan is not widely spoken and is scarcely known. What was Occitan's cultural significance at the time of Dante's writing, and why did it lose prominence in the centuries after?

by /u/TendingTheirGarden in /r/AskHistorians

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