{"id":45291,"date":"2023-05-28T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=45291"},"modified":"2023-05-28T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T10:00:12","slug":"mankind-is-best-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=45291","title":{"rendered":"Mankind Is Best When"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-45292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mankind_Is_Best_When-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mankind Is Best When\" width=\"684\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mankind_Is_Best_When-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mankind_Is_Best_When-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mankind_Is_Best_When-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mankind_Is_Best_When-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mankind_Is_Best_When.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips, but few in their minds.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Dante Alighieri, probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comed\u00eca and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to the most educated readers. His De vulgari eloquentia was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Tuscan dialect for works such as The New Life and Divine Comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language. His work set a precedent that important Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would later follow. Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">W<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Born: c. 1265, Florence, Republic of Florence<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Died: September 14, 1321, (aged c. 56), Ravenna, Papal States<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Resting place: Tomb of Dante<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Occupation: Statesman, poet, language theorist, political theorist<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Language: Italian, Tuscan, Latin<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nationality: Florentine<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Period: Late Middle Ages<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Literary movement: Dolce Stil Novo<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Notable works: Divine Comedy<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dante Alighieri (2009). \u201cOn World-Government Or de Monarchia\u201d, Wildside Press LLC<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips, but few in their minds.&#8221; . &#8220;Dante Alighieri, probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=45291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mankind Is Best When&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45293,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45291\/revisions\/45293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}