Vita nuova (Uusi elämä) by Dante Alighieri

"Vita nuova (Uusi elämä)" by Dante Alighieri is a text published in 1294. This groundbreaking work combines poetry and prose to chronicle Dante's love for Beatrice from their first meeting at age nine through her death and beyond. Through twenty-five sonnets and other verse forms with autobiographical commentary, Dante transforms courtly love poetry into something sacred, using personal emotion to explore divine love. Written in Italian rather than Latin, it marked a revolutionary shift in European literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Author of introduction, etc. Koskenniemi, Veikko Antero, 1885-1962
Translator Tuulio, Tyyni, 1892-1991
Title Vita nuova (Uusi elämä)
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vita_Nuova Wikipedia page about this book: fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_nuova
Credits Produced by Juha Kiuru and Tapio Riikonen
Reading Level Reading ease score: 40.7 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language Finnish
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Italian literature -- Translations into Finnish
Category Text
eBook-No. 52028
Release Date
Last Update Oct 23, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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