The wrong language

How Dante showed us that true influence lies not in exclusive language, but in elevating everyday words to carry profound ideas and unite diverse minds.

Virgil and Dante entering the circle of adulterers, seducers, and flatterers, in a 15th-century manuscript from Siena, now British Library, Yates Thompson 36

The classical world template set by the Greeks and Romans was that the right topic should be discussed and explored using the appropriate language.

Tragedy was the province of the high style, while …