La Vita Nuova (Dante - Dover ed.)

Author: Dante Alighieri

ISBN: 9780486419152

Binding: paperback

Section: Literature-Middle-Ages

Description: This celebration of the poet's passionate love for his immortal Beatrice weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. A predecessor to The Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) also serves as an ever-relevant treatise on the art and technique of poetry.