What was Dante Alighieri's reasoning for writing the Divine Comedy in the vernacular?

In order to reach a wider audience, Dante chose to write the Divine Comedy in vernacular Italian instead of Latin (his overthrow of Latin preceded Geoffrey Chaucer's by 80 years).

Explanation:

in 550 b.c.e. cyrus the great, the leader of the persians, conquered the medes and united the iranian people under one ruler for the first time. cyrus became the first king of the persian empire and went on to establish one of the largest empires in world.

answer; i believe that the correct answer is,lies(political rhetoric);