La vita nuova by Dante Alighieri

"La vita nuova" by Dante Alighieri is a text published in 1294. This groundbreaking work combines prose and verse to chronicle Dante's love for Beatrice from their childhood meeting at age nine through her death and beyond. Written in Italian rather than Latin, it transforms courtly love poetry into something more spiritual and divine. Through personal reflection and lyrical expression, Dante creates an emotional autobiography that explores how romantic love can become a path toward understanding divine love and bringing the soul closer to God. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Editor Agresti, A. (Antonio), 1866-1927
Illustrator Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
LoC No. 03021087
Title La vita nuova
Original Publication Italy: Roux e Viarengo, 1902.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vita_Nuova
Credits Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by the University and City Library of Cologne)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 39.8 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language Italian
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Italian literature
Category Text
eBook-No. 71218
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Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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