Leonardo da vinci believed that by working with the human body that<span> he was also working with the universe. The human body was used as an analogy in regards to the universe.</span>
The things that interested Columbus the most in his first meeting with the Taino, as he himself wrote in his journal, were the abundant possesion of gold that the Taino showed and the inferred knowledge of them of the places where the gold could be found. In his opinion it was worthy to try to convert them to Christianity.
During the Middle Ages, almost all philosophers used to write in Latin- the language of educated and elite class while as Dante wrote his best poem Divine Comedy in vernacular, Italian language-the language of common people.
Dante's decision to write in Italian had a long lasting impact on Italian language. It paved the way for Italian to emerge as a language respect across the European landscape. There were more innovations in this language and more and more people began to write in Italian and ultimately Italian became a cultured and literary language. It is due to the impact of his writing in Italian, he is being called father of modern Italian language.
