The poem suggests an original historical hypothesis. Just as the Argentinian poet, Jorge Luis Borges, suggested that Dante raised up the Comedy simply to set Beatrice as its climax and centerpiece, so I believe that Dante chose the vernacular language, in which to write the Comedy, according to Beatrice's preferences. The traditional, and scholarly, choice would have been Latin; but, I believe, Dante's adolescent adoration, once matured, saw all literary choice in terms of Beatrice's preferences, and not scholarly custom.
