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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

Part love story, part instruction manual, part spiritual journey, Dante's "little book," the Vita Nuova, has had a profound and far-reaching influence on global culture and is considered by many to be the perfect expression of the medieval ideal of courtly love, as well as... Read Full Overview

A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry

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... Read Full Overview

Receipient, 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship

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

La Vita Nuova (Italian for "The New Life") or Vita Nova (Latin title) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1295. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse. Besides its content, it is notable for... Read Full Overview

This bilingual edition of the Vita Nuova is the first facing-page translation of this text to be available in over 50 years. Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta have translated Dante's lyrics into line-by-line free verse that seeks to reproduce Dante's lyrical complexities... Read Full Overview

The first great lyric text in the vernacular, La vita nuova marks the birth of autobiography. Drawing on the "book" of his memory, the young Dante organizes his narrative around praise of Beatrice. This bilingual edition provides analytical keys to the art of poetry and the Florentine... Read Full Overview

Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as Dante's most profound creation. The thirty-one poems in this, the first of his major writings, are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of... Read Full Overview

La parte en prosa sirve como explicaci n de los sonetos, escritos seg n los c nones del dolce stil nuovo, y escogidos entre los que Dante hab a compuesto desde 1283, en honor de diversas mujeres y de la propia Beatriz. Destacan algunos, como Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore... Read Full Overview

One of the great classics of Italian literature, The Vita Nuova is Dante's poetic account of his love for Beatrice, the inspiration for much of his work. This new translation captures the beauty and intensity of Dante's writing, making it accessible to a new generation of... Read Full Overview