Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri, "Vita Nuova"
English | ISBN: 1324095520 | 2024 | 160 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1324095520 | 2024 | 160 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
"Perhaps this lovely little Liveright edition deserves to become the new standard." ―Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review
Dante’s first masterpiece in an enticing new translation by one of our most beloved teachers of Italian literature and culture.
Part love story, part instruction manual, part spiritual journey, Dante’s “little book,” the Vita Nuova, has had a profound and far-reaching influence on global culture and is considered by many to be the perfect expression of the medieval ideal of courtly love, as well as an essential precursor to Dante’s sublime poetic apotheosis, the Divine Comedy.
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