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In this new edition Musa views Dante's intention as one of cruel and comic commentary on the shallowness and self-pity of his protagonist, who only occasionally glimpses the true nature of love. ". . . the explication de texte which accompanies Musa's] translation is instructively... Read Full Overview

This youthful masterpiece by the author of The Divine Comedy recounts the love and loss of Beatrice, Dante''s lifelong inspiration. An allegory of spiritual crisis and growth, it combines prose and poetry in a powerful work in the literature of love. This new translation features... Read Full Overview

Dante escribi la Vida nueva a los veintiocho a os de edad, en la misma poca en la que emprend a la carrera pol tica que le llevar a a la derrota de su partido y al exilio despu s de ocupar cargos pol ticos en el Comune de Florencia. La obra es el resultado y la s ntesis de... Read Full Overview

Receipient, 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship

"The New Life" or "La Vita Nuova" is the first of two collections of verse and prose written by the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri. Since the Middle Ages, Dante has been cherished as the "Supreme Poet" of Italy, and is most widely recognized for his allegorical masterpiece... Read Full Overview

Poetry. Translated from the Italian by Emanuel di Pasquale and Bruno Alemanni. THE NEW LIFE was Dante's first book. It was written between the years 1293 and 1295 in the spoken language, not in Latin, before Italy had a national literature. Dante took the poems he had written... Read Full Overview

La Vita Nuova - Dante Alighieri . A translation into English by A. S. Kline . Published with illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti . Composed around 1294, in Italian, the Vita Nuova tells the story of Dante's encounters with and love for Beatrice, culminating in her early death... Read Full Overview

The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams... Read Full Overview

The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante's early masterpiece and provides an indispensable prequel to The Divine Comedy. Set in thirteenth-century Florence, part autobiography and part religious allegory, it traces Dante's... Read Full Overview