Literature started as an oral form. How could people remember? Poet had to use language in a way people could remember. They had to make what they composed memorable, therefore they use language in a way similar to their songs: alliteration, rhyme, assonance, incremental repetition and refrain. So people could remember. Oral composition were handed over from generation to generation. The topics of such literature were connected to their life.

What was the most popular form of such literature? It was ballad. The attitude of dancing and singing entered with the entry of Christianity. Christianity had such a diffusion because it promised salvation, it gave a reason to live.

On Sunday, the Day of the Sun, people went to church to celebrate the mass. People sang in Latin because Latin was the language of religion, the original language of the church. But most people were illiterate, that is they weren’t able to write and to read. So, what gave meaning to their praying? Their faith did. Their effort gained in meaning and in value.

Literature is the expression of the community.

The first form of drama was the celebration and the congregation of people that had community parties in which they sang and danced.