Also he made a little work which he calls De Vulgari Eloquentia, whereof he promises to make four books, but only two are extant, perhaps by reason of his speedy end; in which, in powerful and elegant style, and with fine arguments, he examines all the vernaculars of Italy.
"Dante: His Times and His Work"
Arthur John Butler
It was translated into all the vernaculars, Alfred's translation into English being the first, and Notker's into High German being the second.
"Anglo-Saxon Literature"
John Earle
The new language thus brought in was no barbarous dialect, but the most cultivated of the Continental vernaculars.
"Anglo-Saxon Literature"
John Earle