Vita Nuova
Vita Nuova
- ISBN 13:
9780199540655
- ISBN 10:
0199540659
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 07/15/2008
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.