Vita Nuova Audiobook Libro.fm

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A sparkling translation that gives new life in English to Dantes Vita Nuova his transcendent love poems and influential statement on the art and power of poetry and the most widely read of his works after the Inferno

A Penguin Classic

Dante was only nine years old when he first met young Beatrice in Florence Loving her for the rest of his life with a devotion undiminished by even her untimely death he would dedicate himself to transfiguring her through poetry into something far more than a museshe would become the very proof of love as transcendent spiritual power and the adoration of her a radiant path into a new life

Censored by the Church written in the Tuscan vernacular rather than Latin exploding the courtly love tradition of the medieval troubadours and employing an unprecedented hybrid form to link the thirtyone poems with prose commentary Vita Nuova first published in 1294 represents both an innovation in the literature of love and the work of Dantes that brings this extraordinary poet into clearest view This limpid new translation based on the latest authoritative Italian edition captures the ineffable quality of a work that has inspired the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson Charles Baudelaire T S Eliot Jorge Luis Borges Robert Penn Warren and Louise Glck and sustains the long afterlife of a masterpiece that is itself a key to the ultimate poetic journey into the afterlife The Divine Comedy

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