The Influence of Dante on the Italian Language

Dante unified Italy through the power of his language rather than you know by the sword okay yeah so the question is then how did he do that how did why is it like it wasn't through force of arms. Why did Tuscan the Tuscan language as developed by Dante rather than the Sicilian or or I don't know what other possible you know vernacular is how did that happen? The Tuscan literature was so influential everywhere in Italy It was among the first examples of of literature literatures in vulgar languages in Italy in a vulgar language and it was the most influential because of how just think of the fact that we had three authors like Dante, Petraca and Bocacc