La Vita Nuova (Thrift Editions)

by Dante Alighieri (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.44

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.44

  A new translation of Dante's most profound creation, which has been read variously as biography, religious allegory, and a meditation on poetry itself.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $13.07

  A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry, LA VITA NUOVA is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own prose commentary.

  The poems themselves tell the story of his love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party in her father's house, through Dante's sufferings and his attempts to conceal the true object of his devotion by the use of 'screen-loves', to his overwhelming grief ather death, 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 the beloved's beauty and virtue, illustrate the elevating power of love.