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During the Renaissance, literature changed as humanist ideas spread. Writers began focusing on secular topics and the individual experience using their native languages rather than Latin. Petrarch was an early humanist who collected classical texts and influenced other Italian writers. Dante wrote his Divine Comedy, an imaginative journey through the afterlife, in the Florentine vernacular, influencing later Renaissance writers to use native languages over Latin. The printing press helped spread new ideas a

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