Beowulf and the divine comedy are similar in that both works
are written in an early version of italian
dramatized events from the lives of everyday people
influenced the development of the language in which they were written
are still widely read today in their original form

Beowulf and The Divine Comedy are similar in that both works the development of the language in which they were written. Option C is correct.

The Divine Comedy was Italian and Beowulf was anglosaxon/old English eventually the English.

Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.

The Divine Comedy is an Italian long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320