Vita Nuova: The New Life by Sasha Newborn, Dante Alighieri

Vita Nuova: The New Life

Sasha Newborn, Dante Alighieri with Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Translator)

104 pages first pub 1294 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced
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Dante's putative subject is Beatrice/Love-but the Vita Nuova is really an exercise in poetry: Dante sets the emotional scene for a poem, then he writes the poem, then he explains the poem's structure, part by part. The work shows what we recognize...

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