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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 Love," it is a love story set to the task of confirming the "new life" this meeting inspired. With a critical introduction and explanatory notes, this is a new translation of a supreme work which has been read variously as biography, religious allegory, and a meditation on poetry itself.

Introduction

11

(16)

The Translation

27

(2)

LA VITA NUOVA

29

(72)

I

29

(1)

II

29

(2)

III

31

(2)

FIRST SONNET

32

(1)

IV

33

(1)

V

34

(1)

VI

34

(1)

VII

35

(1)

SECOND SONNET (double)

35

(1)

VIII

36

(2)

THIRD SONNET

37

(1)

FOURTH SONNET (double)

38

(1)

IX

38

(2)

FIFTH SONNET

39

(1)

X

40

(1)

XI

41

(1)

XII

41

(4)

BALLAD

43

(2)

XIII

45

(2)

SIXTH SONNET

46

(1)

XIV

47

(3)

SEVENTH SONNET

49

(1)

XV

50

(1)

EIGHTH SONNET

50

(1)

XVI

51

(2)

NINTH SONNET

52

(1)

XVII

53

(1)

XVIII

53

(1)

XIX

54

(5)

FIRST Canzone

55

(4)

XX

59

(1)

TENTH SONNET

59

(1)

XXI

60

(2)

ELEVENTH SONNET

60

(2)

XXII

62

(2)

TWELFTH SONNET

63

(1)

THIRTEENTH SONNET

64

(1)

XXIII

64

(6)

SECOND Canzone

67

(3)

XXIV

70

(2)

FOURTEENTH SONNET

71

(1)

XXV

72

(3)

XXVI

75

(3)

FIFTEENTH SONNET

76

(1)

SIXTEENTH SONNET

77

(1)

XXVII

78

(1)

THIRD Canzone (unfinished; one stanza only)

78

(1)

XXVIII

79

(1)

XXIX

80

(1)

XXX

81

(1)

XXXI

81

(4)

FOURTH Canzone

82

(3)

XXXII

85

(1)

SEVENTEENTH SONNET

85

(1)

XXXIII

86

(1)

FIFTH Canzone (two stanzas only, but complete)

86

(1)

XXXIV

87

(2)

EIGHTEENTH SONNET (with two beginnings)

88

(1)

XXXV

89

(1)

NINETEENTH SONNET

90

(1)

XXXVI

90

(1)

TWENTIETH SONNET

90

(1)

XXXVII

91

(1)

TWENTY-FIRST SONNET

92

(1)

XXXVIII

92

(2)

TWENTY-SECOND SONNET

94

(1)

XXXIX

94

(2)

TWENTY-THIRD SONNET

95

(1)

XL

96

(2)

TWENTY-FOURTH SONNET

97

(1)

XLI

98

(1)

TWENTY-FIFTH SONNET

99

(1)

XLII

99

(2)

Note on the Structure of the Vita Nuova

101

(2)

Notes on the text

103

(18)

Chronology

121

(2)

Index of first lines of poems

123

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