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Vita Nuova

By Dante Alighieri
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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. It is considered by many to be the perfect expression of the medieval ideal of courtly love, as well as an... Read More
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Dante's first masterpiece in an enticing new translation by a beloved teacher of Italian literature and culture

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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. It 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.

Now Joseph Luzzi, celebrated author of books about Italian literature and culture and a lifelong lover and teacher of Dante's poetry, gives us a version of the Vita Nuova that is fresh, contemporary, and approachable. It is as vital and vivid as Dante's original Tuscan dialect, rendered in a voice that will entice a new generation of readers to swoon over one of the most heartbreaking stories of unfulfilled love in all of world literature.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781324095521

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 December 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation

Contributors:

  • Translated by Joseph Luzzi

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 124.0mm

Height: 193.0mm

Weight: 220g

Pages: 160

Collections

Arts & Culture Classic Fiction Classic Poetry Dante Alighieri General Fiction Literary Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 in Florence to a family of minor nobility. He entered into Florentine politics in 1295, but he and his party were forced into exile in a hostile political climate in 1301. Taking asylum in Ravenna late in life, Dante completed his Divine Commedia, considered one of the most important works of Western literature, before his death in 1321. Joseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning scholar of Italian culture. His book Botticelli’s Secret was named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and was shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

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