Today it is not only enjoyed for its imaginative and sensitive love story, but also for its exploration of poetry and religious experience, and the overarching connection between them all Book Details The New Life is the masterpiece of Dantes youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. La Vita Nuova is the first of two collections of verse and prose. The piece transformed European vernacular poetry, and established the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard. Read The New Life (La Vita Nuova) by Dante Alighieri available from Rakuten Kobo. Seller: Forgotten Books, London, United Kingdom Seller Rating: Contact seller. It explores the emotions of courtly love, its powerful ability to inspire, and Dante's affirmations of his own religious convictions. The Vita Nuova, or New Life of Dante Alighieri (Classic Reprint) Dante Alighieri. Utilising and developing the conventions of Courtly Love, in a mixture of prose and verse, Dante deepens the emotional content of the genre, while pointing the way towards the. 'La Vita Nuova' contains works written over a period of ten years, from before 1283 to roughly 1293, and is the semi-autobiographical account of Dante's lifelong love for a woman he called Beatrice. Composed around 1294, in Italian, the Vita Nuova tells the story of Dante's encounters with and love for Beatrice, culminating in her early death and its effect upon him. Since the Middle Ages, Dante has been cherished as the 'Supreme Poet,' or simply il Poeta, of Italy, and is most widely recognized for his allegorical 'Divina Commedia'. 'La Vita Nuova' is the first of two collections of verse and prose written by the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).

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