They were busy dealing with the great depression
Because he thought the British navy was coming to his aid
Hero. She went from being a peasant girl living in medieval France who believed that God chose her to lead France to victory. She lead the French army.
D. Dante wrote <em>The Divine Comedy. </em>The book follows the journey of the author through the many levels of Hell, into Purgatory, and eventually through the levels of Heaven. Dante was also one of the earliest authors to begin writing exclusively in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin.