Dante’s Vita Nova (circa 1292–1295) depicts the joys and
sorrows, the discoveries and conflicts of Dante’s early love for
Beatrice—who would achieve later and even greater fame in
Commedia—starting with his first sighting of her and culminating
in his prevision of Beatrice among the beatified in heaven.
Award-winning translator and poet Andrew Frisardi channels the
vigor and nuance of Dante’s first masterpiece for a modern
audience. The “little book,” as Dante calls it, consists of
thirty-one lyric poems—mostly sonnets—embedded in a prose
narrative, which both recounts an apparently autobiographical set
of events also evoked in the poems and offers analysis of the
poems’ construction in the medieval critical tradition of divisio
textus, or division of the text. Dante selected poetry he had
written before age twenty-eight or so and wrote the prose to shape
it into a story. The poems anthologize Dante’s growth as a poet,
from the influence of his earliest mentors to the stylistic and
thematic breakthroughs of his poetic coming-of-age. The interplay
of poetry and prose in Vita Nova, along with the further
distinction in the latter between autobiography and critical
divisioni, presents a particular challenge for any translator.
Frisardi faithfully voices the complex meter and rhyme schemes of
the poetry while capturing the tone of each of the prose styles.
His introduction and in-depth annotations provide additional
context for the twenty-first-century reader.
General
| Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2012 |
| Firstpublished: |
April 2012 |
| Translators: |
Andrew Frisardi
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
408 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8101-2721-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8101-2721-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780810127210 |
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