The New Life (La Vita Nuova) by Dante Alighieri
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"The New Life (La Vita Nuova)" by Dante Alighieri is a prosimetrum published in 1294. Combining both prose and verse, this "little book" traces Dante's love for Beatrice from their first meeting at age nine through her death and beyond. Through commentaries on twenty-five sonnets and several other poems, Dante transforms courtly love into something sacred, marking a turning point in European poetry by writing in Italian rather than Latin and drawing
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| Author | Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 |
| Title | The New Life (La Vita Nuova) |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vita_Nuova |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Brian Foley, Barbara Magni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (archive.org/details/americana) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 67.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Italian literature -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 41085 |
| Release Date | Oct 17, 2012 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 2371 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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