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Item Details
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LA VITA NUOVA
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| By: |
Dante |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£2.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0486419150 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780486419152 |
| Publisher: |
DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC. |
| Pub. date: |
20 August, 2001 |
| Series: |
Dover Thrift Editions |
| Pages: |
64 |
| Translated from: |
Italian |
| Synopsis: |
First transcribed c.1292, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) is a celebration in poetry and prose of Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) passionate love for the woman he worshiped from afar; his beloved Beatrice. A precursor of The Divine Comedy, this groundbreaking masterpiece comprises Dante's early sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries, connected by an autobiographical prose narrative of his love for Beatrice. The commentaries explicate each poem, placing it within the context of the poet's life, and further refining Dante's concept of romantic love as the initial step in the spiritual development that culminates in the capacity for divine love. The entire work, reproduced here complete and unabridged, encompasses 42 brief chapters with commentaries on 25 sonnets, one ballata, and 4 canzoni; an unfinished fifth canzone was abandoned at the news of Beatrice's death. Dante's unconventional approach - using Italian rather than Latin, addressing readers directly, and writing from personal experience - ushered in a new era in lyrical poetry, in which writers departed from highly stylized forms in favor of a simpler style. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Dover Publications Inc. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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