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Dante Alighieri Vita Nuova: Dual Language (Paperback) (UK IMPORT). Set in thirteenth-century Florence, part autobiography and part religious allegory, it traces Dante’s quest to find a poetic idiom worthy of Beatrice, whom he had loved since boyhood. It is a hundred and fifty years since Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s groundbreaking version of the Vita Nuova. Further DetailsTitle: Vita Nuova: Dual Language Condition: New Description: The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante’s early masterpiece and provides an indispensable prequel to The Divine Comedy. Set in thirteenth-century Florence, part autobiography and part religious allegory, it traces Dante’s quest to find a poetic idiom worthy of Beatrice, whom he had loved since boyhood. Her premature death plunges him into an emotional turmoil that finds release only through his faith in her continuing spiritual influence and through his determination “to write of her what has never been written of any woman”. The Vita Nuova remains a central document in European culture’s examination of love and the self. It is a hundred and fifty years since Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s groundbreaking version of the Vita Nuova. Now Anthony Mortimer, already acclaimed as translator of Cavalcanti, Petrarch and Michelangelo, produces a verse translation that avoids Rossetti’s disturbing archaisms but preserves a lyric immediacy worthy of the original. This is a Vita Nuova for the twenty-first century. Author: Dante Alighieri EAN: 9781847496959 Contributor: Anthony Mortimer (Translated by) ISBN: 9781847496959 Format: Paperback Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 128mm Item Weight: 281g ISBN-10: 1847496954 Genre: Fiction Item Width: 20mm Publisher: Alma Classics Release Date: 02/01/2017 Language: Italian, English Translator: Anthony Mortimer Topic: Classic Fiction Release Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
