La Vita Nuova / Dante Dante Alighieri.
Dante Alighieri, Dante, author.; Lerer, Seth, contributor.; Slavitt, David R., contributor.
2014
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Title La Vita Nuova / Dante Dante Alighieri.
Author Dante Alighieri, Dante, author.
ISBN 9780674270619
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674270619
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2010
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (160 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674270619 doi
Summary La Vita Nuova (1292-94) has many aspects. Dante's libello, or "little book," is most obviously a book about love. In a sequence of thirty-one poems, the author recounts his love of Beatrice from his first sight of her (when he was nine and she eight), through unrequited love and chance encounters, to his profound grief sixteen years later at her sudden and unexpected death. Linked with Dante's verse are commentaries on the individual poems-their form and meaning-as well as the events and feelings from which they originate. Through these commentaries the poet comes to see romantic love as the first step in a spiritual journey that leads to salvation and the capacity for divine love. He aims to reside with Beatrice among the stars. David Slavitt gives us a readable and appealing translation of one of the early, defining masterpieces of European literature, animating its verse and prose with a fluid, lively, and engaging idiom and rhythm. His translation makes this first major book of Dante's stand out as a powerful work of art in its own regard, independent of its "junior" status to La Commedia. In an Introduction, Seth Lerer considers Dante as a poet of civic life. "Beatrice," he reminds us, "lives as much on city streets and open congregations as she does in bedroom fantasies and dreams."
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Added Author Lerer, Seth, contributor.
Slavitt, David R., contributor.
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CONTENTS
Translator's Preface
Introduction
Further Reading
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