Vita Nuova - A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Paperback, Bilingual edition)

A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary. The poems themselves tell the story of his undying love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party, through Dante's sufferings and his attempts to conceal the true object of his devotion, to his overwhelming grief at her death, and ending with the transformative vision of her in heaven. These are some of the richest love poems in literature and the movement from self-pitying lament to praise for his beloved's beauty and virtue illustrate the elevating power of love. This lucid new translation, based on the latest authoritative Italian edition and featuring the Italian on facing pages, captures the ineffable quality of a work that has inspired the likes of Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges and Louise Gluck.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2023
Authors:	Dante Alighieri
Translators:	Virginia Jewiss
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	224
Edition:	Bilingual edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-310620-3
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Italian
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	0-14-310620-1
Barcode:	9780143106203

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