what important change made literature more popular int the renaissance that it had been before??

Question

is it a) writers wrote about religious topics
b) people believed that reading lead to salvation
c) writers wrote in their own dialects
or d) people believed that reading led to finacial success

(no i am not cheating on a test, i am studing for a final and didn't mark the blank.)

Answer 1

C is the best answer of the choices given. It's probably fine for the Renaissance. Later on, the invention of the printing press definitely had a huge effect, as did increasing education and a drop in the price of paper.

Answer 2

"The creation of the printing press encouraged authors to write in the local vernacular rather than in the classical languages of Greek and Latin, widening the reading audience and promoting the spread of Renaissance ideas."

"Renaissance literature" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_literature

"Dante wrote the Comedy in a new language he called "Italian", based on the regional dialects of Tuscany, Sicilian and some elements of Latin and other regional dialects. By creating a poem of epic structure and philosophic purpose, he established that the Italian language was suitable for the highest sort of expression. In French, Italian is nicknamed la langue de Dante. Publishing in the vernacular language marked Dante as one of the first (among others such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio) to break from standards of publishing in only Latin or Greek (the languages of Church and antiquity). This break allowed more literature to be published for a wider audience - setting the stage for greater levels of literacy in the future."

"Dante Alighieri : Works" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante#Works

"An aspect of the influence of the Protestant Reformation on literature was the number of great translations of the Bible, including an early one by Erasmus, into vernacular languages during this period, setting new standards for prose writing."

"Western literature, history of : The Renaissance", Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000

"The great poet Dante lived at about the same time as Giotto, and his poetry shows a similar concern with inward experience and the subtle shades and variations of human nature. Although his Divine Comedy belongs to the Middle Ages in its plan and ideas, its subjective spirit and power of expression look forward to the Renaissance. Petrarch and Boccaccio also belong to this proto-renaissance period, both through their extensive studies of Latin literature and through their writings in the vernacular."

"Renaissance", Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000

Answer 3

My stand is not on your choises. If you would try to review your history, it was in the rennaissance period that the printing machines were invented. And so, a considerable amount of books in all shapes and types had been published. This made the balls of literature rolling until now...